A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.
Therese DoucetTags: philosophy faith existentialism theology kierkegaard philosophy-of-religion either-or
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
Sarah DessenTags: life boys life-lessons sports smart pretty sarah-dessen along-for-the-ride riding bikes girly debutante either-or auden-west capable-of-more maggie-neely pageants
Only after living through all eternity and assuring myself that you were mine every instant, only then would I return to you and live with you through all eternity, and no doubt not have patience enough to be separated from you for an instant without longing, but assurance enough to sit calmly at your side.
Søren KierkegaardTags: either-or
A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?
Melika Dannese HickTags: life fate decisions determination philosophical choices toughness either-or take-a-stand corcitura zigmund-fertig madelaine-bradburry unchanging-situations what-s-it-to-be
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Søren KierkegaardTags: existence death existentialism life-lessons either-or
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