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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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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What labels me, negates me.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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