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

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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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

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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

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