The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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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 greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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