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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life Yourself
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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Advice Life Present Silence World
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Desire Lose One Liner Speak
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Deep Great Loss
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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