Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Soren Kierkegaard As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent. . . . This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: love change self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: reality power change facts denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent. . . . This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: love change self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: reality power change facts denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “freedom” This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. —Patricia Sampson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. —Maxwell Anderson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. —Patricia Sampson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. —Maxwell Anderson More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email