When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
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Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
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MARIAN KEYES It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. LAUREN DESTEFANO If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection GUNNAR BJöRNSTRAND ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love. The first thing you ... CARLA BUCKLEY Those moments when you sin against him become opportunities for you to taste once again his great lo... WILLIAM P. SMITH No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the s... ONDJAKI No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living respon... WENDELL BERRY No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along th... BILLIE JEAN KING Do something today, no matter how great or small, to put a little more Love in the world. ELEANOR BROWNN Are you ready for the rapture of the church Are you ready for Heaven Our Lord Jesus Christ... DORIS IJEOMA BASIL No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along th... BILLIE JEAN KING There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. JOHN GREEN Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it mea... B.J. NOVAK When it's just us, I can be myself and know you'll love and understand me no matter what. You don't ... CORETTA SCOTT KING Once you've experienced love, it becomes a cycle. PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN Theres some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. , AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES, 2008 A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A human will only grasp the realm of a parent’s love when he experiences for himself the like. DIEGO VELASQUEZ This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, ... KATE DICAMILLO I know things that eventually fades away and dies but one thing is for sure...and will stays as what... GUITARSDEPRESSIONS If you intellectualize the idea of marriage, it can be quite daunting, no matter how much in love yo... DAVID FRANKEL Every human has the ability to love , no matter what! ANIL GUPTA I know things that eventually fades away and dies but one thing is for sure...and will stays as what... GUITARSDEPRESSIONS When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. MUHAMMAD ALI There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w... TOM ALTHOUSE When those beautiful words of "I love you" are heard by the soul. The radiowave of the universe beco... IAN IJH HOWELL When you fall asleep and dream of love, it becomes your morning glory as if you spent a night in hea... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an... RICHARD PRESTON In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? JACK KORNFIELD Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bib... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. KEDAR JOSHI Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of po... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the ... SIDNEY MADWED Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedent... CAROLINE GEORGE You know you're in love when you love an imperfect person perfectly! RUBY RACHELLE HARDEE The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu... EDITH WHARTON She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas... EDITH WHARTON No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when h... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human abil... GALILEO GALILEI No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effec... EDWARD WHITACRE, JR. In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more import... ERICH FROMM I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my... MADELINE MILLER and tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chas... COLDPLAY
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. SOREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so f... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. SOREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you be... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. SOREN KIERKEGAARD A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen bu... SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. SOREN KIERKEGAARD It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale.... 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 I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come... SOREN KIERKEGAARD That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity. SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de... SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i... SOREN KIERKEGAARD