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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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