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" There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. "
Soren Kierkegaard
Man
Much
Know
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" 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. "
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" I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. "
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" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "
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" At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. "
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" Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "
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" It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. "
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" People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. "
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" Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. "
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" Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. "
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Childhood
Time
" 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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Two
You
" Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. "
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Thoughts
Always
Dominant
" If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. "
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God
Capable
Believe
" Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. "
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Patience
Cannot
Necessary
" 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. "
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Will
Beautiful Things
Beautiful
" There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. "
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Moment
Life
Joy
" Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. "
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Reality
Solved
Life
" It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. "
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Only
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" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "
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Backwards
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Lived
" Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. "
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Great
Trouble
Living
" Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. "
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Beloved
Love
Itself
" The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. "
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Influence
Prayer
Nature
" Be that self which one truly is. "
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Self
Truly
Which
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" The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. "
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Thoughts
" Purity of heart is to will one thing. "
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One Thing
Will
Thing
" God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. "
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Yes
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" The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. "
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Dies
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