Sean Kinney

“We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love