Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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My sorrow is my castle.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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