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"The more you read without thinking, the more you think you know a lot but the more you meditate, the more you see that you know very little."

Voltaire

topics:

• understanding

• meditation

712

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• ambition

• identity

1071

"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

topics:

• avoidance

• love

• deception

1075

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• identity

• purpose

1063

"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• fear

• worry

• anxiety

1066