
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
The Art of Writing
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
Source: "Woman in Europe" (1927), P. 243
“The woman loves to provoke who can dominate her imagination.”
Original: La donna ama provocare chi riesce a dominare la sua immaginazione.
Source: prevale.net
“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”
Variant: One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.
Source: The Bane Chronicles
On Regine Olsen (2 February 1839)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual. … it seems to me that I should have to possess the beauty of all girls in order to draw out a beauty equal to yours; that I should have to circumnavigate the world in order to find the place I lack and which the deepest mystery of my whole being points towards, and at the next moment you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it's good to be here.