Alain de Botton

“There is no such thing as a good or bad book. There are only books that are well written and books that are badly written.”

“The single greatest driver of boredom in the workplace is the absence of a sense of meaning.”

“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for perspective, for being at peace with ourselves.”