More quotes by Alain de Botton

"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."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"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..."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."