Paul Whitehouse: What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Paul Whitehouse said elsewhere, not written here

The eradication of poverty would be nice, but at the moment, a double macchiato.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

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Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed. To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

Recorded Essay first published in the Strand Magazine in 1921–22 and collected in Amid These Storms, 1932, Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime, Project Gutenberg Canada, 1932 source ↗

Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer