Coosje Van Bruggen Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. — Joseph Campbell

I've had more numbers on my back than a bingo board. — Rocky Bridges

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. — Otto Von Bismarck

A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past. — Tucker Elliot

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow. — Alvin Toffler

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? — Edmund H. North

Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well. — Swami Abhedananda

You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage. — Cheryl Strayed

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy. — Frederick Salomon Perls

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. — Donald Trump

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. — Dorothy Kilgallen

The worst troll is the one that lives in your head. — Austin Kleon