My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction. - Søren Kierkegaard

The task is not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable – whether given or chosen – and to be able to continue finding this one lovable, no matter how that person changes. To love is to love the person one sees.

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.