More quotes by Alain de Botton

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."