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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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 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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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