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 KIERKEGAARDAnd this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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I 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.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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