"The unhappy person is never present to..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”
“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, thatlove too has its prophecies in the individual.”
“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”
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“You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.”
“Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.”
“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
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“Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving”
“Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.”
“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”