There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDI see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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