More quotes by Alain de Botton

"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
"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."
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."