Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
' Letter to Kierkegaard's cousin Hans Peter http://books.google.de/books?id=CUfkNXWLyboC&pg=PR21 (1848) <br class="br">1840s
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
' Letter to Kierkegaard's cousin Hans Peter http://books.google.de/books?id=CUfkNXWLyboC&pg=PR21 (1848) <br class="br">1840s
“Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Gray Wolf Throne
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As translated by Alan R. Clarke (1996).
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
“Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Evidence: Poems
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: ..... love yourself.
“Above all, do not allow yourself to be bewitched by the evil charms of geometry.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Sur-tout ne vous laissez point ensorceler par les attraits diaboliques de la géométrie.
Lettres Spirituelles, no. 59, cited from Correspondance de Fénelon, archevêque de Cambrai (Paris: Ferra Jeune, 1827) vol. 5, p. 514; translation from Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot (eds.) A History of Women in the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994) vol. 3, p. 405.Œuvres complètes De François de Salignac De La Mothe Fénélon. TOME V Briand 1810 LETTRE CXLII (142) p.106.
“Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.”
Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābāī, in ” Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West”, p. 251
“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)