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Laurens van der Post Quotes: Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
         

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.


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Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.



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We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.



Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.



The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.



Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.



Creativity and love come from the same source.

Creativity and love come from the same source.



You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.



Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.



There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.



[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.





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It's not showing off if you back it up.



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Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.



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I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.



This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.

This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.



Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.



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Pissing in a river, watching it rise.



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Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.



For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.




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