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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Life, Positive
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Life, Happiness

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
Love, Prayer, Men

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Truth, Thinking

To love another person is to help them love God.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Life, Helping

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Needs, Should

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Positive, Compassion

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Giving, Unconditional

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Heartbreak, Cheating

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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

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

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Life, Beautiful
Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Depression, Depressing
"Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, 1987.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Sea, Two

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Prayer, Long

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