It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have. Soren Kierkegaard statespainfulremember Love believes all things and yet is never deceived. Soren Kierkegaard deceivedlove-isbelieve Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you. Soren Kierkegaard soulwishheart The door to happiness opens outward. Soren Kierkegaard doors The door to happiness opens outward. Soren Kierkegaard The door to happiness opens outward. Soren Kierkegaard doors For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. Soren Kierkegaard greaterrisk Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die. Soren Kierkegaard bornenoughworld It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path. Soren Kierkegaard difficultypath How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint? Soren Kierkegaard choicesrules-and-regulationsworld A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening. Soren Kierkegaard prayerlovemen Do it or don't do it - you will regret both. Soren Kierkegaard you-will-regretregret If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence. Soren Kierkegaard silenceinspirationfaith To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. Soren Kierkegaard confusingstrangecomplicated The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. Soren Kierkegaard disbelieverseyeself Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard bad-asslife-is-goodexpression The thing that cowardice fears most is decision Soren Kierkegaard cowardicedecision The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not. Soren Kierkegaard be-or-not-to-beshould Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. Soren Kierkegaard untruthcrowds 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. Soren Kierkegaard life-lessonthings-in-lifebeautiful
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