Søren Kierkegaard

His writings on individual responsibility, free will, and self-determination have shaped my own.

1. Let your passion move you into the unknowable future; life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 2. Protect and cultivate your spiritual identity; no loss occurs more quietly in the world than the losing of the spiritual self. 3. Apply labels with care; labels are unavoidable but in a way negate people by inadvertently reducing their complex humanity to limited