2 Jaar Getrouwd Quotes & Sayings

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive. — John Ortberg

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness. — Guy Finley

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. — Edgar Allan Poe

The world ultimately is what we say it is. — David Strauss

Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature - the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own image, instead of submitting to it and listening to what it has to say. The aggressive ungainliness of so much academic writing about literature is a sign of this - it is unliterary writing about literature, which should be a contradiction in terms. — Adam Kirsch

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement ... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation. — Lynn Margulis

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you? — Meg Cabot

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us. — Kenya Hara

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope

But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country — Halldor Laxness

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity. — Joseph C Zinker

The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up. — Emil Cioran

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children. — Lois Wyse

When you don't think you can feel is when you learn you can smile until it hurts, and love until you're too scared to say it, because you need someone who loves you enough to look you in the eyes and say, 'You're beautiful the way you are It'll be ok. You're worth something.' because sometimes you forget. It's easier to believe when they say it. If you believe, it means that they matter to you. You want to bare your soul to them. Give them everything it takes to let you fall, and pray to God that they are there to catch you. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it. — Washington Irving