Zainab Ebrahimi

“Romantic idea of love: he has found the right person; he has opened his heart to her; and he has been accepted. But he is, of course, nowhere yet. He and Kirsten will marry, they will suffer, they will frequently worry about money, they will have a girl first, then a boy, one of them will have an affair, there will be passages of boredom, they’ll sometimes want to murder one another and on a few occasions to kill themselves. This will be the real love story.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We seem unwilling to allow for the possibility that the glory of our species may lie not only in the launching of satellites, the founding of companies, and the manufacturing of miraculously thin semiconductors but also in an ability—even if it is widely distributed among billions—to spoon yogurt into small mouths, find missing socks, clean toilets, deal with tantrums, and wipe congealed things off tables.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Fear is not something that goes away. It’s not something that even diminishes, really. Rather, it stays. You can simply become better and better at hearing it without listening.”
― Maxie McCoy, You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way

“There is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: they discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it,”
― Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You