Opijnen Provincie Quotes & Sayings

Being with him felt unbearable, but being with anyone else did too. — Cheryl Strayed

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation. — John Logan

the schoolboy had something of the stolid air of a young duke doing the grand tour, while his elderly relative was reduced to the position of a courier, who nevertheless had to pay for everything like a patron. — G.K. Chesterton

Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen. — Thomas Pynchon

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened. — Bill James

It is love. But I will not stay.
My father
was a long dark fairytale too. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

Though she would never say so, Sandy holds the opinion that mothers who keep their figures have sacrificed less than mothers who have widened and softened. — Maggie Shipstead

For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medication of for whom the side effects of antidepressants are troubling, the fact that placebos can duplicate much of the effects of antidepressants should be taken as good news. It means that there are other ways of alleviating depression. As we have seen, treatments like psychotherapy and physical exercise are at least as effective as antidepressant drugs and more effective than placebos. In particular, CBT has been shown to lower the risk of relapsing into depression for years after treatment has ended, making it particularly cost effective. — Irving Kirsch

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. — Martyn

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mountains of the Great Divide are not, as everyone knows, born treeless, though we always think of them as above timberline with the eternal snows on their heads. They wade up through ancient forests and plunge into canyons tangled up with water-courses and pause in little gem-like valleys and march attended by loud winds across the high plateaus, but all such incidents of the lower world they leave behind them when they begin to strip for the skies: like the Holy Ones of old, they go up alone and barren of all circumstance to meet their transfiguration. — Wallace Stegner