Søren Kierkegaard

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Hope is a passion for the possible."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Once you label me you negate me."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don’t know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of wellbeing and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To NOT dare is to lose oneself."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"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."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Despair is an aspect of spirit, it has to do with the eternal in a person."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes the people who pray."

- Søren Kierkegaard