Alain de Botton Quotes

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.

I always felt love from both my parents.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

I adored my father - I was more attached to him than anyone.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

My dad doesn't hug me enough!

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

My daughters are very precious to me.

I never got hugged as child.

I never saw my parents kiss.

Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging - it definitely wasn't the fake love.