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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.

Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.