More quotes by Alain de Botton

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"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."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."