Amersfoort Quotes

#1. Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy."
Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Guus Kuijer

#2. If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#3. Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ ...

George Whitefield

#4. It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

Christopher McCandless

#5. There is something wonderful in accepting someone else's flaws especially when it gives you the chance to accept your own and see that those flaws are the things that make us human.

Jenny Lawson

#6. Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Had the poet said so in so many words, he would have been far less effective. Because, as I understand it, anything suggested is far more effective than anything laid down. Perhaps the human mind has a tendency to deny a statement.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. Food for thought, eat my words with your mind:
Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

MF Grimm

#9. I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Margaret George

#10. Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

David Luiz

#11. If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn't buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

Mara Wilson

#12. You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Douglas Wilson

#13. It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends ... people I already knew, people I didn't know but I now count as friends. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the movie but I can't claim to have been any part of that.

Matt Lucas

#14. I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Theophilus London

#15. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men ... Every Christian is to be a witness;
every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Billy Graham