Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
Alain de BottonIt seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
Alain de BottonThe 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.
Alain de BottonUnnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
Alain de Botton