Alain de Botton Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

  Alain de Botton

  Character, Parent, Trying

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

• The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

  Alain de Botton

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013

• The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Children, Self

  "In defence of self-help books" by Alain de Botton, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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