“ If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a litde, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea—and then he can very easily reach and help others to reach the highest attainments, i.e. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843). copy citation