More quotes by Alain de Botton

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."