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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life Yourself
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
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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Faith God Himself Love Person Philosophy Reflection
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy
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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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

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