Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. . . . The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented — and then do nothing.
—Soren Kierkegaard
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.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
—Soren Kierkegaard