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."
"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."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."