More quotes by 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."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"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."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."