Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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