Narcissism is the word we routinely use to describe someone self-satisfied and arrogant. But what do we really mean by the word?
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“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
– Alain de Botton
“There is no such thing as work-life balance…
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
— Alain de Botton
The Danish Girl is an incredible love story through the eyes of Gerda, who helps her husband Einar, become the woman she was meant to be.
“Art as Therapy: Alain de Botton on the 7 Psychological Functions of Art” by Maria Popova.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/25/art-as-therapy-alain-de-botton-john-armstrong/
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
– Alain de Botton, On Love.
