More quotes by Alain de Botton

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"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."