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#1

“When people are missing out in their choices and cannot make a distinction between cheery, witty, funny, filthy or scurrilous walks of life, they will have a hard time to inhabit a pleasing and enriching life; and to integrate into a world of understanding and recognition. ("Love lying fallow " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: choices, enriching, integrate, lying-fallow, missing-out, recognition, scurrilous, understanding, walk-of-life, witty

80 likes

#2

“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: back-burner, candid, desire, fair-weather, foster, quality, reai-values, shell, shining, touch-and-feel

79 likes

#3

“When we feel life escapes us and we don’t recognize ourselves anymore, we do well to build a safe haven in our frame of mind before the essence of our being evaporates and the keystones of our mental structure disintegrate. ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: desire, disintegrate, essence, evaporate, frame-of-mind, keystones, life, mental-state, recognize, safe-haven

86 likes

#4

“The true responsible will do whatever it takes to hold each droplet accountable when the stormwater inundates the fences of our living. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accountable, drolet, fences, inundate, living, resonsible, stormwater, weightiness

80 likes

#5

“When the flood submerges the whole country, no raindrop may feel responsible. ( "Finally things had lost their weightiness" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: flood, raindrop, responsible, submerge, weightiness

88 likes

#6

“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release by ring-fencing a mental space to reflect on their mindset and to recover their true self. ("Did not expect it would ever happen there" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alienation, indifference, mental-space, mindset, misfits, reflect, ring-fencing, true-self, unresponsive

88 likes

#7

“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: crystallized-dreams, ephemeral, eternity, instant, memory, moments, radiate, temporality, twinkle

96 likes

#8

“We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: backstage-door, escape, happiness, radiance, relish, sense, silently, stealthy

80 likes

#9

“When we are fairly observant and overly patient, a vibration of happiness might crop up unwittingly, as we capture the “timelessness” of a lucky moment and a sparkle of a stray instant, unexpectedly, enraptures our life in a blaze of color and splendor. ( "Happy days are back again" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blaze, enrapture, happiness, lucky-moment, observant, patient, sparkle, splendor, timelessness, vibration

90 likes

#10

“If our feelings clash with our perceptions and we cannot breathe anymore, below the leaden sky of a harsh reality, we have to kill the dormant virus of lassitude, punch the air and propel us on a new course, taking back a genuine interest in the world, and create an open space to overcome the impairment of emotional thinking. -( "No monsters hide at this point" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: breathe, dormant-virus, emotional-thinking, feelings, lassitude, leaden-sky, open-space, perceptions, propel, punch-the-air

86 likes

#11

“Rather than loitering around, day by day, some prefer to crawl out of the shadow of their squirrel cage and try badly to cuddle up to a brighter side of life by searching out some wiggle room to empower their feeble stance, expecting to eke out some soothing moments of relish and buoyancy in the wings of their expectant quest. ( "Loss of urban benchmarks" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bench-marks, bright-side, buoyancy, crawl, cuddle-up-to, loiter-around, quest, relish, squirrel-cage, wiggle-room

83 likes

#12

“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apprehension, bewilderment, brain, confrontation, embed, go-haywire, harbor, showdown, truths, unwitting

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#13

“As gloom and doom have been creeping into their lives, many can’t feel anymore the freshness of their emotions that withered alongside the wearisome path of their expectations. ("Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: creep, drunken-sailor, emotions, expectations, freshness, gloom-and-doom, life, path, wearisome, wither

84 likes

#14

“Let us not be our own worst enemy by enduringly looking on the dark side of things. ("Being my best friend" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: best-friend, dark-side, enduring, worst-enemy

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#15

“When the rusty shackles of our emotions are being unchained, we can become lovers without a cause, and intrinsically the deepest wells of our unconsciousness may uncover the uncharted territories of deliverance, granting free rein to our intuition and giving love downright carte blanche. ("Another empty room" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: carte-blanche, deliverance, emotions, free-rein, intuition, lovers-without-a-cause, shackles, unchained, uncharted-territory, unconsciousness

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#16

“While we are expecting everybody to tell downright the truth, many are muddying the water, drowning questions in a river of words and trying to make us forget what actually the real issue is about. If paltering and deflecting matters might become a new way of telling the truth, interaction might be doomed to culminate in a cluster shell of suspicion and mutual trust to become frantically undermined. ( “Blame storming” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blame-storming, cluster-shell, deflecting, drowning-questions, interaction, muddying-the-water, mutual-trust, paltering, truth, words

85 likes

#17

“If we feel we are missing out sometimes, it may be because we simply forget to consult the past or neglect to think up its ties with the presence. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: consult, forget, memory-lane, missing-out, neglect, past, presence, think-up, tie

82 likes

#18

“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aprioristic, battle, character, combat, conceptions, fallacy, hidden-sides, ignorance, preconceived-ideas, truth

83 likes

#19

“When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask for a new reading of the story of our life. An innocuous flicker from a hazy sequence in our memory lane can affect our current awareness, making us raise questions, throwing new light on our expectations; crafting an airy vision of the future. ("A change of vision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attentiveness, awareness, flicker, innocuous, inquiringness, memory-lane, raise-questions, scent, shimmer, vision

87 likes

#20

“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new reality, make choices, refine and consolidate our self-image; and remodel the mould of our identity. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: camera-obscura, choices, grappling, heart, identity, knot, misery, new-reality, self-image, snap-back

92 likes

#21

“As some find picking on people a treasured entertainment, ‘recreational bullying’ has become their devious tool, to satisfy an exhibitionist urge to outdo themselves, by dredging up acerbic stories for score-settling and airing dirty laundry. ("On a doggy day")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acerbic, airing-dirty-laundry, bullying, doggy, entertainment, exhibitionist, recreational, scoresettling, to-dredge-up, to-outdo-oneself

88 likes

#22

“When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: desire, drift, inner-self, life, manufactured, pattern, reality, tides, to-hit-the-ground-running, vision

92 likes

#23

“When some name dropping and eye-rolling chin-strokers are trying to snow us under with an avalanche of swollen narratives, we must never resist puncturing the blown-up balloons of their twisted too-good-to-be-true stories. The sound of bursting balloons may, then, ring like ravishing music in the ears.("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balloons, burst, chin-strokers, eye-rolling, milkman, name-dropping, punctured, swollen-narative, to-good-to-be-true-stories, to-snow-under

88 likes

#24

“As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarming immaterialities of our living may cry out to us and our consciousness may ask us to account for what we are doing or for what we have not done. This may be the instant we might engineer our future with destiny. (
"Sisyphus on the hill")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blizzard, cliff, consciousness, dazzling, destiny, engineer, future, immateriality, questions, sisyphus

88 likes

#25

“When people have not learned to interpret the past, to read the present; and to imagine and empower the future, they are living a life without a punchline, clueless about the story they are embarked upon. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: clueless, embark, empower, future, imagine, interpret, past, present, punchline, shortlist

89 likes

#26

“We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness of facts. To get a better grip on the intricate nature of the truth and its ambiguity, we have got to scrutinize facts and find out about their codes. But, yet, we can’t ignore that reality is a very intriguing place, since facts may be construed, receive variant contexts and create alternate outcomes, which, in turn, might spark new realities, over again. ("Imbroglio" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ambiguity, codes, construe, contexts, explicitness, facts, intriguing, reality, truth

88 likes

#27

“Life is a conjurer’s trick that may become a playground for multifarious side-splitting acts; sometimes a showdown for a series of torturous, off the wall questions or often a terrain for tragic miscalculations. ("Wheeling and dealing." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conjurer-s-trick, life, miscalculation, multifarious, off-the-wall, playground, showdown, side-splitting, torturous

82 likes

#28

“If people challenge the vagaries of life, in a world where conflicting powers are outlining our fate, it may be ill-advised to actuate wrecking high-wire acts without a safety net. If they need a new swing in their reality, they cannot count on sheer luck. Whatever their exploit may be, reflection and action must be ingrained allies, on all accounts.("Ruling the waves" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: action, challenge, conflicting-powers, fate, high-wire-act, luck, reflection, safety-net, swing, vagaries

83 likes

#29

“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: core-values, fascination, in-the-moment, life, obsession, priorities, sign-values, social-pyramid, subservient, true-self

87 likes

#30

“The stranded, walking a fine line between reality and illusion, constantly weaving through disappointment and hope, despite all, never stop dreaming of empathy and good feeling, while craving for attention and endorsement. ("No monsters hide at this point" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, disappointment, empathy, endorsement, good-feeling, hope, illusion, the-stranded, walking-a-fine-line, weaving

84 likes

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