Dokkum Netherlands Quotes & Sayings

Every man lives for himself, using his freedom to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can at any moment perform or not perform this or that action; but, so soon as he has done it, that action accomplished at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a predestined significance. There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him. — Leo Tolstoy

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person. — Brigitte Boisselier

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. — Og Mandino

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore. — Kiran Desai

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

My brain caught up to my emotions. He meant for Colt and Caine to take me drag racing? Oh, hell to the no. — Eden Connor