Walk!

About walking: Søren Kierkegaard
- the father of existentialism

(In English below)

”Tab for alt ikke lysten til at gå: Jeg går mig hver dag det daglige velbefindende til og går fra enhver sygdom. Jeg har gået mig mine bedste tanker til og jeg kender ingen tanke så tung, at man jo ikke kan gå fra den. Når man således bliver ved med at gå, så går det nok.”

- Søren Kierkegaard i et brev til sin svigerinde Sophie Henriette, der havde været syg (1847)


"Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well being and 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. If one keeps on walking everything will be all right."

- Søren Kierkegaard in a letter to his bed-ridden sister-in-law (1847)

Further quotes on walking!


“Now shall I walk or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.”
― William Henry Davies

“Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.”
― Raymond I. Myers

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
― Noël Coward

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”
― Charles Dickens

“Now shall I walk or shall I ride?
'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.”
― William Henry Davies

“The easiest way to enter paradise is to make an early morning walk in a forest!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

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