Peter Verhelst Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man's composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion of the world entitles to regard, whom accident has placed in heights of which they are unworthy, that he who cannot restrain his contempt or indignation at the sight will be too often quarrelling with the disposal of things to relish that share which is allotted to himself. — Henry MacKenzie

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
to be mourned,
but as an act of citizenship,
to be vaunted,
there is little civilian life left. — Jill Lepore

When you are introduced
to the clarity inside of you,
to the simplicity inside of you,
to that beauty inside of you,
the journey of life begins. — Prem Rawat

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now. — Emil Cioran

This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known ... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value. — Fanny Burney

She lived and breathed the streets, and would lay her neck on the line to protect its occupants. But how did she tell an idealist that the world was not black and white? — Caroline Mitchell

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. — Sarah Addison Allen

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. — Viktor Schauberger

A 'journey' is not about the DESTINATIONS you have made in your life, it is the fact that you are STILL looking forward to the next destination.
Peace — Athena Dent

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. — Baltasar Gracian

Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears. — Evan Osnos

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep. — William Weld

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. — Johan Huizinga

(A name, at last. "Say it loud and there's music playing. Say it soft and it's almost like praying.") — Rainbow Rowell