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

"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."

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

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

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