“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“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.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
“Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.”
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“It’s better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.”
“The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
“Once you label me you negate me.”
“Do it or don’t do it – you will regret both.”
“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.”
“Without risk, faith is an impossibility.”
“Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?”
“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection.”
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
“I’m so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I’m misunderstood.”
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.”
“For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.”
“God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.”
“Be that self which one truly is.”
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”
“Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes – but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.”
“Confidence is the present tense of hope.”
“Worship isn’t God’s show. God is the audience. God’s watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.”
“The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.”
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
“To love another person is to help them love God.”
“The door to happiness opens outward.”
“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.”
“Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.”
“God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.”
“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
“Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.”
“Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.”
“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
“Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
“The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.”
“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”
“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.”
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