Sren Aaby Kierkegaard Famous Quotes
"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."
"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"
"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward."
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
To love another person is to help them love God.
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
Don't forget to love yourself.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard Quotations
"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."
Dante Alighieri
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
Queen Juliana
"This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
Al Capone
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Granville Hicks
"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
Karl Kraus
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her."
M Scott Peck
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
Sir John Lubbock
"I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive."
Mark Twain
"Live your own life, for you will die your own death."
Latin Proverb