The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than... - Alain de Botton

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."

"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..."

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