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#121

“Being caught up in a game without having a clue about the rules, may be extremely maddening and frustrating. Liberty may be so frightening and grueling, that many donâ€™t conceal their passion for rules and regulations, since these can give a relieving feeling of security and protection. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: catch-up, clue, conceal, feeling, forget, frightning, frustrating, game, grueling, liberty, maddening, passion, protection, regulations, relieve, rules, security

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#122

“Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( "I seek you" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: big, guess, illiterate, love, read, seek, small, write

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#123

“Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but â€˜timeâ€™ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (â€œDisruptionâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ally, arouse, bewilderment, clashes, coach, dependable, disruption, find, future, heal, inspiring, mental-wreckage, past, present, prove, redeemer, reliable, sequel, surge, time, unexpected

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#124

“Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (â€œJust for a momentâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: in-fact, kill, life, memory, merely, moments, serial-killer, series, steadily, survivor, unflinching

98 likes

#125

“While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the â€œfollowersâ€ are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comesâ€¦" ("His master's voice" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: age, be-under-way, browbeating, cat, clear-sighted, constrained, credulous, dare, emperor, followers, knower, magnificent, naked, new-clothes, obscurantism, obviously, pigeons, say-out-loud, way, wicked

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#126

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we donâ€™t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: art, biased, breathing, come-to-life, concept, consent-to, dispel, disturbing, feel, forsaken, fragments, ignored, in-the-end, nasty, perceptions, philosophy, piece-of-art, raise-questions, recognize, reconcile, remember, sometimes, start, talk-to

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#127

“Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we donâ€™t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blow, dare, dream, fill, happiness, million, shoot-for-the-moon, stars, wind, wonder

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#128

“Everyone has prejudices, but some can correct them, others stick in the mud and remain diehard.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: correct, diehard, everyone, prejudices, remain, stick-in-the-mud

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#129

“When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: benchmarks, conflicts, emotional, empty, love, mental, mindgames, play, reset, room, squirming, tinderbox, unremitting

93 likes

#130

“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (â€œBuying now, dying laterâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: addiction, administer, boredom, buying, consumption, convey, crowd, cure, discovery, dying, expenditure, extravagance, fictitious, humbleness, medication, mindful, others, power, remedy, standing-out, supremacy

97 likes

#131

“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: â€˜Iâ€™, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the â€œIâ€ entails what I want; the â€œmeâ€ what others expect of me and the â€œothersâ€ what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", â€œsurroundingsâ€ and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (â€œI am on my own side, but I can listen â€œ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abysmal, bridge, diverse, entail, expect, features, generous, i, individuality, life, listen, me, otherness, others, reconcile, restored, side, surroundings, trilemma, want

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#132

“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, architecture, beauty, dark, display, emtional, fair-weather-relationship, fake, features, happiness, hell, hiding, life, outcasts, potemkin, prefer, reject, satisfaction, set-up, window-dressing

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#133

“When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness to be anchored in a bay of good luck. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchored, bay, blow, blowing-in-the-wind, care, expectations, future, gently, good-luck, happiness, hope, inveigle, love, soothing, tenderness, thistledown, timeless, wind

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#134

“When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in the stream of our thoughts, the fault line between what we have underfelt and what we have overthought on our way. (â€œAxel Redâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dare, discover, fault-lines, in-shambles, mind, on-our-way, overthought, reflect, story, stream-of-thought, underfelt

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#135

“When we feel we have benched ourselves for too long, we must loosen up the unessential, get over our endless cringing and make a bold leap to the glowing stars of our dream. ("Steaming ahead" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bench, bold, cringe, dream, endless, feel, get-over, glowing, leap, loosen, stars, steam-ahead, unessential

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#136

“By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: actuality, appraise, assemble, at-last, authenticity, consequential, decay, experience, facts, factuality, gradually, idealize, key-point, labyrinth, live-through, maimed, mind, mutate, numerous, past, review, sometimes

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#137

“When peopleâ€™s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. (â€œThe day the mirror was talking backâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: characters, collide, fanciful, hard-time, invented, items, parallel, people, real, subdue, truth, world

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#138

“When some claim demarcation and â€œregulationâ€, others fancy â€œderegulationâ€, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. (â€œThis farâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: chicken-yard, chickens, claim, demarcation, deregulation, fancy, foxes, free, friend-or-foe, guard, have-a-go, henhouse, prefer, regulation, this-far

95 likes

#139

“People who donâ€™t construe their life and donâ€™t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an "empty box". Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( "Everybody his story" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act, box, construe, empty, frame, inventiveness, life, out-of-the-box-thinking, people, remain, sidelines, stay, story, tale, turn-into, wishful-thinking

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#140

“Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If we only keep looking into the middle distance, we might easily walk straight into the wall. ("Change of Vision")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: buoyant, change, clear-cut, easily, horizon, look-into, middle-distance, proper, reach, reading, roadmap, shores, vision, walk-into-the-wall

91 likes

#141

“Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: break-free, breaking, ceremonial, cherry-picking, cocoon, exhausing, follow, forgetting, freedom, game, inner-rules, instill, life, lifetime, offer, permeate, prevent, ravishment, rhythm, rules, scaring, securing, subtly, thinking, value

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#142

“We may be happy but just donâ€™t know it yet. Many want to rebuke themselves for not finding the threshold of well being, since they simply havenâ€™t learnt to be nice to themselves and to enjoy the privileged twinklings of life. ("Câ€™est quand le bonheur ?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: enjoy, happy, know, learn, life, nice, privileged, rebuke, threshold, twinkling, well-being

93 likes

#143

“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: besieged, burst-of-emotion, cape-of-good-hope, constraints, deep, emerge, fade-away, fringe, heart, let, loop, love, mind, mindset, narrowness, open-up, repeal, revolving, roaming, spaciousness, stifle, triviality, ultimately, undreamt, world

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#144

“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (â€œInto a new lifeâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: betray, brightness, day, evanescence, illness, indulgent, insidiously, irrevocably, life, light, old-age, reckless, seep-away, strength, time

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#145

“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling donâ€™t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedralâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: capricious, hurdle, irrational-feeling, keep-on-an-even-keel, life, love, meander, rational-thinking, unpredictable, vagaries

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#146

“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. (â€œInto a new lifeâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dream, effort, even-though, fear, future, guilt, hold-back, home, new, new-life, past, regret, remorse, skeletons, unsettle

97 likes

#147

“By squirming out of our dungeon of indifference and wriggling from ourself-centered vault of unawareness, love can conjure up an aura of mental opulence and an inkling of infinity.( "Love as dizzy as a cathedralâ€)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aura, cathedral, conjure-up, dizzy, dungeon, indifference, infinity, inkling, love, mental, opulence, ourself-centered, squirming, unawareness, vault, wriggle

91 likes

#148

“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, assess, bridge-the-gap, connectedness, consciousness, countless, desire, empathy, fail, framework, intricate, life, live-up-to, needs-and-wants, nitty-gritty, prickly, query, sensitive, stake-a-claim, standards, stir, surroundings

96 likes

#149

“Many are charmed into paying cash for access, but may be unconscious of their petrifying downward spiral and the steady descent into the abyss of a lobby gate. ( â€œBribe payersâ€™ indexâ€ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abyss, bribe, bribe-payers-index, cash-for-access, charme-into, descent, downward-spiral, lobby, lobby-gate, pay, petrifying, steady, unconscious

88 likes

#150

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apt, become, cardboard-characters, engineer, indivuality, life, panting, pecking-order, prey, steer, terra-incognita, turn-into, walking-dead

92 likes

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