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• Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

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  Regret, You Will Regret

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

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  Heart, Soul, Wish

  "Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature". Book by D.R. Ellison, p.51, 2001.

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• It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

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  Breathe

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• 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.

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  Love, Prayer, Men

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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  Change, Expression, Being Sad

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• The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

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  Government, Evil, Choices

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• The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

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  Christian, Sweet, Atheist

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

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  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• Once you label me you negate me.

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  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• Confidence is the present tense of hope.

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  Tense, Present Tense

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

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  Life, Loneliness, Simple

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• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

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  Learning, Order, Understanding

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• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

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  Silence, World, Modern

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• It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

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  Path, Difficulty

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• The door to happiness opens outward.

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  Doors

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• The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

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  Remember, Painful, States

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• 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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  Beautiful, Life Lesson, Things In Life

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• Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

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  Questions And Answers, World

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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  Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

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• God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

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  Use, Firsts

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• The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

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  Believe, People, Investing

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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  Life, Success, Courage

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• The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

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  Decision, Cowardice

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• 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

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  Love, Truth, Thinking

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• Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

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  Life Is, Backwards, Understood

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