Polyptoton Nederlands Quotes & Sayings

(Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone)
You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason. — Thomas Merton

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing. — S.A. Tawks

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci

Even though people are shallow and lots of people prefer scripted fictional heroes to real human beings, they can still be shaken out of it in the presence of someone who is REAL. Your problem is not that you haven't mastered the conversational skills necessary to maintain someone's interest. Your problem is that you've never forced yourself to define exactly who you are and what you love and how you want to live. You've never had to talk about these things passionately. You've never dared to lay yourself bare, without apology. Once you can look someone in the eyes and say, "Here's what really matters to me"? That's what people find attractive, trust me. They want to be with someone who knows himself and gives a shit. That's what's alluring and attractive and irreplaceable, even in this age of smooth make-believe. — Heather Havrilesky

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. — Christopher Lasch

So truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star. — E. E. Cummings

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live — Paulo Coelho

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes. — Geddy Lee