Kanne Gumatay

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
― Alain de Botton

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
― Alain de Botton

“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.”
― Amanda Hocking, Hollowland