The difference between hope and despair is a different way o... - Alain de Botton

"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."

"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."

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."

"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."