Driebergen Loop Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn't even look to see if there was water in the pool. — Mavis Gallant

There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading. — Hugo Grotius

I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn't satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path. — Maya Angelou

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — David Lloyd-Jones

You just gotta do what you gotta do whatcha can. — Dan Henderson

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys. — George Lucas

Manage your energy, not your time — Paul Dickey

The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous ... Then he was free and fearless ... now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life ... He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth ... and he was now sunk deep in lies ... lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him. — Leo Tolstoy

I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own. — Margery Fish

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God. — Pope John Paul II