Arthur Japin Quotes & Sayings

I felt before I thought, as all humans do. — Arthur Japin

Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give. — Arthur Japin

My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved! — Arthur Japin

One can only learn what one doesn't know. — Arthur Japin

We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him.
Kwame in The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi — Arthur Japin

That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there. — Arthur Japin

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see. — Arthur Japin

That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see. — Arthur Japin

Conversely, the red plant itself burns a brighter red when set off by the green than when it grows among its peers. In the bed I always reserved for poinsettia seedlings, there was little to distinguish one plant from its neighbours. My poinsettia did not turn scarlet until I planted it in new surroundings. Colour is not something one has, colour is bestowed on one by others. — Arthur Japin

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard. — Arthur Japin

We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. — Arthur Japin

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice. — Arthur Japin