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

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."

"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."

"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 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."