Quotes of Peter De Vries

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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff — it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

- Peter De Vries

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“ Awake, my friend! Arise, my friend! Start walking my friend! And do not stop until you bring the change you wish to see in your society! ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ”

- Fulton J. Sheen

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are. ”

- Unknown

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. ”

- Unknown

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche