Posts Tagged “alain de botton”
success and failure
by MeL on November 15, 2009
I was about to ignore this video when I came across it, as the to-do list for the day is still very much unchecked. 16 minutes for a video is quite very long I thought. Then again, it’s a talk (…)
what Proust teaches today
by MeL on October 1, 2009
A thin layer of dust has collected since I last read the Proust book. Some brain food for today. We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go (…)
from the book
by MeL on July 14, 2009
If colors could be used to describe writings, his writings made full use of every colors from black to white. 1. There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of our (…)