The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by …

Alain de Botton
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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children. ✨ Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013
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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. ✨ Alain de Botton (2001). The Consolations of Philosophy, … ▶
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? ✨ Twitter post from Apr 27, 2015
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decis … ▶

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children. ✨ Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013

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