SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: LOVE

  • [I] struggle to accept compliments…despite craving them.

    Bimbo Ubermensch
    The Ocean

  • God wants that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

    —Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

  • I understand death now. I don’t think it will do me much harm. I have known hatred, contempt, decay, and other things; I have even known brief moments of love. Nothing of me will survive, and I do not deserve for anything of me to survive. I will have been a mediocre individual in every possible sense.

    Platform
    Michel Houellebecq

  • It’s possible to live in the world without understanding it; all you need is to be able to get food, caresses, and love.

    Platform
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Ultimately, love resolves all problems.

    Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto: Rester vivant (To Stay Alive)

  • Aymeric had married within his circle, that’s what happens most often in the end, and it’s what gives the best results in principle, well, that’s what I’d heard anyway, but my problem is that I had no circle, no precise circle.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • For my part, without loved ones, it seemed to me that I was accepting the idea of death more and more easily; of course I would have liked to be happy, to be part of a happy community–all humans want that–but, well, it was really out of the question at this stage.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • But death imposes itself in the end: the molecular armour cracks, the process of decomposition resumes its course. It probably happens more quickly for those who have never belonged to the world, who have never imagined living, or loving, or being loved; those who have always known that life was not within their reach.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Kierkegaard seems to have genuinely loved Olsen but was unable to reconcile the prospect of marriage with his vocation as a writer, his passionate, introspective Christianity and his constant melancholy.

    …

    Kierkegaard would remain a celibate bachelor for the rest of his life.

    Regine Olsen

  • The saints give us this interesting way to think about the commandment to love our neighbors: They tell us that all our spiritual wealth is stored at our neighbor’s place. And all our neighbor’s wealth is stored with us. Alone in our homes, we are without funds, because the only financial assets we have are over there at our neighbor’s place. To collect some of our spiritual wealth, we have to reach out to our neighbor, where it is stored. And our neighbors, to possess their spiritual wealth, have to reach out to us. Without this reaching out to one another, we both live in spiritual poverty. 

    As therefore one who had his own gold buried in the house of his neighbor, should he refuse to go and there seek and dig it up, will never see it; so likewise here, he who will not seek his own profit in the advantage of his neighbor will not receive the crowns given for this. For God has placed each person’s profit with his neighbor, that we may be mutually bound together. —St. John Chrysostom

    —Dee Pennock, God’s Path to Sanity