Søren Kierkegaard

The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

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

What labels me, negates me.

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

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

The crowd is untruth.

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.