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The task is not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable – whether given or chosen – and to be able to continue finding this one lovable, no matter how that person changes. To love is to love the person one sees.


Søren Kierkegaard

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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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WILL SMITH Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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There was a terribly ghastly noise.
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the lesson.
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ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
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JEANIENE FROST So this is going to be drill!?
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ZSA ZSA GABOR If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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AYN RAND He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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FENNEL HUDSON Desire less and be desirable; love more and be lovable.
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AVA DELLAIRA To be loved, be lovable.
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ERICH FROMM If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD A Swede quoting a Dane
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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