More quotes by Alain de Botton

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"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."
"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."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."