Govaerts Quotes & Sayings

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — T. S. Eliot

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Matt Haig

If you've been in the software business for any time at all, you
know that there are certain common problems that plague one
project after another. Missed schedules and creeping requirements
are not things that just happen to you once and then go
away, never to appear again. Rather, they are part of the territory.
We all know that. What's odd is that we don't plan our projects
as if we knew it. Instead, we plan as if our past problems are
locked in the past and will never rear their ugly heads again. Of
course, you know that isn't a reasonable expectation. — Tom DeMarco

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving. — Sri Aurobindo

He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years — Jodi Picoult

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. - E. M. Forster — Ransom Riggs

What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker. — Lindsay Pearce

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged. — Kirk J. Schneider

The other limitation on our discussion is that for the most part I examine the principles of justice that would regulate a well-ordered society. Everyone is presumed to act justly and to do his part in upholding just institutions. — John Rawls

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be. — Simon T. Bailey

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered. — Sappho