More quotes by Alain de Botton

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"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."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."