More quotes by Alain de Botton

"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."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"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."