The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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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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.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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