Alain de Botton Quotes

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.