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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.

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.

Soren Kierkegaard
Regret, Philosophy, Two
"Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

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Life, Success, Wine
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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Passion, Men, Highest
"Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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Love, Sweet, Doe
Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.20, Jovian Press

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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Friendship, Jobs, Comfort
"Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1849), 1959.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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Travel, Stars, Fall

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Soren Kierkegaard
Truth Is, Individual

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Past, People, Pleasure

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

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Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur
Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

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Christian, Offering, Giving

That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

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Journey, Sight, Bridges

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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Sorrow, Comfort
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

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Evil, Able, Possibility
Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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God, Prayer, Doe
"Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard
Heart, Long, Childhood
Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

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Christian, Passion, Heart

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

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Hate, Evil, Suffering
"Phaedo" by Plato,

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

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Religious, Courage, Grieving

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

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Laughter, What If, Tears
Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Soren Kierkegaard
Heart, Blushing, Cheeks

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Soren Kierkegaard
Past, Remember, Made

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

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Religious, Atheism, Doubters

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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Good Life, Roots, Evil

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Soren Kierkegaard
Maturity, Discovery, Critical Moments

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Certain, Mistaken

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