Woorden Doen Pijn Quotes & Sayings

If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple. If we want to bring about deep change, we need to realize that certain mindsets really do influence our behaviour. Our efforts at education will be inadequate and ineffectual unless we strive to promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature. Otherwise, the paradigm of consumerism will continue to advance, with the help of the media and the highly effective workings of the market. — Pope Francis

Many men wanted to be with her for her beauty and her rank. But she wanted an equal. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. — Plato

A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. — Esther Hicks

To know yourself is to know where you're from — Harriet Evans

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs. — Kola Boof

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us? — Mark Kingwell

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do. — Lydia Davis

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love! — Steve Maraboli

I don't think we get too many choices in life ... I like knowing - and I like you knowing - I chose you. — Shannon Delany

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged. — Kathleen Turner

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there ... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet? — Boris Johnson

Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters. — Craig Alanson

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching. — Edwin Arlington Robinson