Quotes of Laurens Van der Post

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

- Laurens Van der Post

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“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ 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

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ”

- Joyce Brothers

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas