More quotes by Alain de Botton

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"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."