More quotes by Alain de Botton

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"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."
"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."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."