Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.


Soren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIRKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Life…can only be understood backwards…
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Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
HELEN KELLER
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
HELEN KELLER
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Life must be lived as play.
PLATO
Life must be lived in speed and focus
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Be yourself, be who you can be.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the bes...
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Life goes on.
ANDY NGUYEN
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
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Now she is ignoring me as first

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Not every word...
DEYTH BANGER
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE
Life can be defined "Lived" only when it is exploited to educate other souls about the Lord.
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I can't be perfect for you, but you are perfect for me.
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There are many things in life that can only be really understood after we have become parents who ha...
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be underst...
JANE SMILEY
It's up to you to be anything you want. This should make you sober
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M. SCOTT PECK
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remov...
JAMES ALLEN
Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, unce...
MANDY HALE
You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.
STEVE HARVEY
Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.
FRANK LOWY
Life is not intended to be understood but rather lived in faith that we are in the riotous path fulf...
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The concept of time becomes an illusion inside a human mind. Time can not be understood, it can only...
EPHDAN
I myself am my only obstacle to perfection,” wrote Kierkegaard.
GEORGE SHEEHAN
Anything is possible if yo've got enough nerve,
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question
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Life wasn't meant to be feared but lived fearlessly.
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I can only be young once. But I can be immature all my life !
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No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t...
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Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
KATHRYN LASKY
The earth mother
Loves circles to complete —
So all aspects of life
must be lived
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you n...
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and...
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
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You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have...
STEVE JOBS
The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Live can only be fully lived by faith in the spirit of love.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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STEVE MARABOLI
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BONO
A life lived every day doing only what needs to be done may seem convenient but your heart and soul ...
AVINA CELESTE
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
We can only be better. We look forward to the future.
DORRELL HILLIMAN
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was me...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be dis...
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
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GERALD R. FORD
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ROLAND BARTHES
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
TAYLOR CALDWELL
Simple things often make great difference
SOTONYE ANGA
When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from i...
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When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it fr...
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Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.
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Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the oth...
KATHRYN LASKY
IN EVERY SITUATION IN LIFE, WE MUST NOT ONLY BE HOPEFUL BUT AS WELL KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE.
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TABITHA SOREN
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
TABITHA SOREN
It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the ...
TABITHA SOREN
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't pro...
TABITHA SOREN
In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in th...
TABITHA SOREN
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with i...
TABITHA SOREN
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien...
TABITHA SOREN
I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
TABITHA SOREN
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
TABITHA SOREN
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audienc...
TABITHA SOREN
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIRKEGAARD
In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth...
SOREN PETERSEN
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Once you label me you negate me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD