We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
Alain de BottonIt is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
Alain de BottonPegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain de BottonThe difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
Alain de Botton