More quotes by Alain de Botton

"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."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"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."