Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and... - Alain de Botton

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."

"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."