Sunday, March 1, 2009

Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

I have been reading some of Soren Kierkegaard's works recently. Here are some of his best quotes. I hope you find them helpful.
  • It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
  • It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
  • Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
  • Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
  • Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
  • Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
  • Once you label me you negate me.
  • One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
  • Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
  • Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
  • People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
  • Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
  • Purity of heart is to will one thing.
  • The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
  • 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. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Training Update

Nothing today. Still kind of sick and still kind of injured.

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