Quotes by Dutch Authors - Page 2

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
Vincent van Gogh
There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.
William the Silent
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
For attractive lips speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes seek out the good in people. For a slim figure share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
Audrey Hepburn
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
It is not my ability but my response to God's ability that counts.
Corrie ten Boom
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Etty Hillesum
The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists and it certainly always will I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank
God does not pay weekly but he pays at the end.
Dutch proverb
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie ten Boom
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
Dutch proverb
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!
Anne Frank
When one friend washes another both become clean.
Dutch proverb
He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
Erasmus
I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.
Vincent van Gogh
The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.
Etty Hillesum
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie ten Boom
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
Baruch Spinoza
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
Corrie ten Boom
Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.
Corrie ten Boom
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn
Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.
Corrie ten Boom
Of two evils choose the least.
Erasmus
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
He who has a choice has trouble.
Dutch proverb
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
Fortune favors the audacious.
Erasmus
I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent van Gogh
Betwixt the devil and the deap sea.
Erasmus
My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.
Herman Boerhaave
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Spinoza
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent van Gogh
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van Gogh
Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
Vincent van Gogh
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
Vincent van Gogh
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.
Frederick Franck
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.
Etty Hillesum
Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
Etty Hillesum
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch proverb
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow.“Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn’t have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.
Michel Faber
Ramon Ramon is a riot. Totally paranoid, gangsta detective. Been reading it with my girlfriend on study breaks and it always gives us a good laugh. Not usually into fiction, but i've been giving this a shot as recommended. With all the heaviness this is relief in its lightness. Go get em Ramon.
Thomas Dekooning
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
Cees Nooteboom
Nothing is impossible, the world it's self says I'm possible!
Audrey Hepburn
Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?
Marieke Stoop
Eighty two percent of the traumatized children seen in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network do not meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD.15 Because they often are shut down, suspicious, or aggressive they now receive pseudoscientific diagnoses such as “oppositional defiant disorder,” meaning “This kid hates my guts and won’t do anything I tell him to do,” or “disruptive mood dysregulation disorder,” meaning he has temper tantrums. Having as many problems as they do, these kids accumulate numerous diagnoses over time. Before they reach their twenties, many patients have been given four, five, six, or more of these impressive but meaningless labels. If they receive treatment at all, they get whatever is being promulgated as the method of management du jour: medications, behavioral modification, or exposure therapy. These rarely work and often cause more damage.
Bessel A. van der Kolk
This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the difference?
Anne Frank
Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now.We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.
Abraham Kuyper
I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?
Martijn Benders
Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.
Frans de Waal
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey Hepburn
Everything I learned I learned from themovies.
Audrey Hepburn