Being hated Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being hated Children Good parent Hated Mind Parent Parenting Time
I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
“Good parenting is about being confident that you have a far higher calling than to just be a friend or dish out punishment. It… — Andy Kerckhoff Copy Share Image
“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Being a good parent means you take the good moments and cherish them and try to make even better moments turn into even better… — Frederica Ehimen Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“high-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who “can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on you without… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There's a good reason for the media hating me. And once I came to grips with that fact, that there's a reason they should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. — Moby Copy Share
Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their… — John Selden Copy Share Image
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme.… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image