Nicolaas Bester Quotes & Sayings

As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Adam M. Grant

If any one object that I have here imagined too much, I would remark, first, that the records in the Gospel are very brief and condensed; second, that the germs of a true intelligence must lie in this small seed, and our hearts are the soil in which it must unfold itself; third, that we are bound to understand the story, and that the foregoing are the suppositions on which I am able to understand it in a manner worthy of what I have learned concerning Him. — George MacDonald

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters. — Bell Hooks

In the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful, — Laura Ruby

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. — Kelly Thompson

Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes. — Carew Papritz

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. — Sri Aurobindo

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny. — Don Rickles

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote