More quotes by Alain de Botton

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
"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."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."