“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Soren Kierkegaard
Tag: Quote of the Day
15OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
Soren Kierkegaard
I’m not really sure what he means. Does he mean that compromising your principles is the same as giving up on your life?
14OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & 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. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
Soren Kierkegaard
Not very profound but actually very good advice so I included it.
13OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard
An odd way of looking at it but true.
12OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”
H. L. Mencken
11OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
10OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annihilation of his being.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
09OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“Scoundrels are always sociable.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
08OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
07OCT2018 – Quote of the Day
“Life without pain has no meaning.”
Arthur Schopenhauer