“Almonds miseries derive from not being able to sit…
Page 196“Almonds miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.“ Blaise Pascal
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
Be fierce with your standards and gentle with your failures, remembering always that you may do a bad thing but you are not a bad person. Learn to sit quietly with yourself, since Pascal was right that half our miseries come from the simple inability to be alone in a room. And measure your whole life not against your brother, your neighbor, or the strangers who look so finished from the outside, but only against the person you were yesterday. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)