Quotes of Jan Peter Balkenende

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In an impoverished Europe which conflict had ripped apart, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability and a new chance to prosper.

- Jan Peter Balkenende

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“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ 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

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

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

- Ruby Dee

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa