More quotes by Alain de Botton

"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."
"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."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."