The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
— J.M. Coetzee
Look at me if you wish, you won’t find anything I haven’t discovered for myself and come to terms with. I’ve probed my depths: you’re free to try too if you want to. Provided you do not expect it to give you any claim on me.
— Andre Brink
Perhaps it does us good…to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don’t break.
— J.M. Coetzee
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.
— J.M. Coetzee
The best thing a father can do is die when his son is in his teens. This is apparently the case with many world leaders and happened to my own father. The process ensured that he grew up extremely quickly into a responsible, hard-working adult.
— Geraint Anderson
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yes – great post
Thanks you and sorry for my late answer. I hope you are having a nice day today. I just drove a 2-day trip from Paris to Lisbon. My goodness what a great trip, so many nice Spanish villages and weather plus scenery was just astonishing even if we are in winter on this side of the globe and it’s supposed to be gray and dull. Still ‘high’ on that today :-).
So finally to get to those quotes :-), i find some great life experience is really epitomized in those sentences. The last one is a bit cruel, no, but in fact I know a few real-life stories where it happened. And those guys have developed into highly successful citizens.
Thanks for you comment :-), those quotes speak loads and like them alot. Those two first ones were my favorite writers, before moved to read thrillers. Have a nice WE!
wow that is beautiful! love it)))
btw your blog is such an inspiration)
Hello there, thank you soo much for your comment. You two are so cute 😉 and I just checked your
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I like those pepper cookies a lot on the picture – and eat them every Christmas. I made some 2 weeks ago.
Those Cyrillic letters are beautiful.
And where from Russia are you, Sasha and Dasha?
thank you so much) we are blogging from Moscow))))
do you mind being online friends?)
Yes with pleasure! Sent you a mail…:))))
Marvelous post
Thank you
My pleasure
I am making alot of life changes at the moment and these quotes really struck a chord
Hi there quittingmylife! If you found some insight in those words, it really made my day. For you to make headway in your journey, you must be totally honest about where you are today. You can learn to be a great captain of and for yourself!!
I wish you persistence on your journey of transformation.
Thanks, do keep blogging you have a follower in me 🙂
Terrific life quotes! And thank you for swinging by the “Ranch” and for the follow. We ❤︎ visitors.
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