There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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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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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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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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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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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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