Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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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

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

—Soren Kierkegaard

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More quotations tagged with “freedom”

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

—Maxwell Anderson

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

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