Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Context: The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
“Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Evidence: Poems
“To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: ..... love yourself.
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) sculptor from France
Quoted by Alan Magee, in Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics., Forum Gallery, New York, 2004
posthumous
“Give love and forget that you gave it.”
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
The Way of God's Will Chapter 2-3 Heart http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw2-03.htm Translated 1980.