Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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