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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Soren Kierkegaard

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
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Difficult Heart Inspirational
My sorrow is my castle.
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Myself One Liner Sorrow
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
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
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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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Exist Impossible One Liner Passion
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
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
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Freedom Mental One Liner
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
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand

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