More quotes by Alain de Botton

"The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."