Wetering Quotes

#1. God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Epictetus

#2. Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#3. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

William Rounseville Alger

#4. Holy shit, I think our boy here has a crush. I do believe the sky is falling.

A.L. Jackson

#5. I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

Toni Braxton

#6. Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.

James Patterson

#7. When I am with you, everything is prayer.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#9. I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Virat Kohli

#10. Pain is a breach in the walls of decline and stagnation.

Bryant McGill

#11. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#12. I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

Nellie McKay

#13. If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

Sophocles

#14. What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records and loves what she does. I think she's a really good example to anybody in the industry that there is life beyond the shows.

Kerry Ellis

#15. I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#16. For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#17. To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

#18. Room 101,' he said.

George Orwell