"To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession."

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Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

Denis de Rougemont

#Passion Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Inability Quotes

“I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think. Otherwise, you're just cruising down a path that's been traveled millions of times. It's cool to find the strange truth in those moments.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.”
“Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.”
“The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.”
“You just have to fight your way through.”
“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”

Source : "Personality and Life: A Practical Guide to Personality Improvement". Book by Jay N. Holliday, 1941.
“Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics...”
“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”

Source : John Grogan (2012). “Marley & Me”, p.255, Hachette UK

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