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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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What labels me, negates me.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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