Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Important
  • Power
  • New

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Teenager
  • Master

• You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Know
  • Chicago
  • Weather

• I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Think
  • Saying

• I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Golf
  • Run
  • Liverpool

• Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Own
  • Birthday

• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Up
  • Live

• This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Sex

• At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Long
  • Book
  • Boy

• Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value
  • Management
  • Accountability

• Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Team
  • Senior

• The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Proud

• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Poems

• Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Worst

• I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Respect

• All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Book
  • Write
  • Publish

• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Smile
  • Hearts
  • Father in Heaven