The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. — Søren Kierkegaard.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

In relation to the labyrinth of her heart, every young girl is an Ariadne; she owns the thread by which one can find one's way through it, but she owns it without herself knowing how to use it.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.