Ontvangen Vertaling Quotes & Sayings

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool. — Vladimir Nabokov

I want you to think of two different situations. First, remember times when you've felt your best, at the top of your game, alive and vibrant. Pay attention to your posture, the muscles in your face, your breathing. Then, I want you to think of occasions where you've felt sick or anxious. Don't just think of people. Think of activities. This will help us reveal what makes you happy. Pay attention to how your body responds to these scenarios - it will serve as your biggest indicator in the future when you're actually doing things." This woman was damn brilliant. "And remember, it's okay to feel sad, but just try to limit your bouts with it to an hour a day. Let it all out, give yourself that time to heal, nurture and comfort yourself. You won't heal unless you grieve. Grieving is good."
"Good grief?"
"Yes. It takes courage to grieve. — Stephanie Klein

Men and your hunts," Lilith went on, addressing, it seemed, some larger error in the Duke's sex. "If you hadn't been out killing healthy stags and boars in the first place, you could have married and lived and loved. But" - she shrugged - "we do as our instincts dictate, yes? And yours brought you here. To the very edge of your own grave. — Clive Barker

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. — Harper Lee

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness. — Cornel West

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man. — Karl Marx

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time! — Lailah Gifty Akita

If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Keep seeking,keep believing and keep praying. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impressive written on a form by a commissioner of lunacy as you're turned over to the hospitallers of St Mary of Bedlam to be dunked in ice water because your latest 'scrape' was running starkers down Oxford Street while gibbering like a baboon. — Kim Newman

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet. — James Taylor

The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods. — George R R Martin

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion. — Nhat Hanh