Hope is a passion for the possible.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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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 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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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What labels me, negates me.
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