Top 31 Van Der Post Quotes
#1. A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. - Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor
David Jeremiah
#3. You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.
Laurens Van Der Post
#4. I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
Gary Oldman
#5. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
#6. Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
#7. That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.
Laurens Van Der Post
#8. Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
Laurens Van Der Post
#9. Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#10. The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.
Laurens Van Der Post
#12. Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van Der Post
#13. Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Laurens Van Der Post
#14. On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.
Laurens Van Der Post
#15. The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van Der Post
#16. ...a journey into the unknown in the world without produces a movement towards new and unknown areas in our world within.
Laurens Van Der Post
#17. Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Laurens Van Der Post
#18. Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
Laurens Van Der Post
#19. Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
Laurens Van Der Post
#20. [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
#21. 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.
Laurens Van Der Post
#22. The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.
Laurens Van Der Post
#23. [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.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
#24. You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
Laurens Van Der Post
#26. It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.
Laurens Van Der Post
#27. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.
Laurens Van Der Post
#28. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.
Tove Jansson
#29. I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone, so why can't I saw what it feels like?
Stephen King
#30. The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.
Laurens Van Der Post
#31. As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.
Laurens Van Der Post
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