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#151

“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth鈥� until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alone, become, believe, bowling, bubble, burst, emotion, factoid, facts, fiction, grab, in-the-end, life, mix, politicians, reiterate, storytellers, tantalizing, tell, truth, unremitting, want

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#152

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acrimonious, circumstances, crippled, find, flicker, gambit, hazy, interpretation, lucid, manipulative, minefield, mysterious, number, power-games, psychological, social-relationships, tell-tale, undercurrent

92 likes

#153

“Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. ( " Homeless down in the corner")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absolute-poverty, be-that-as-it-may, corner, deficiency, door, emerge, gradation, homeless, human-warmth, leave-ajar, mode, ocean, peer-in, radiate, scale, shades, shortage, stage, sun

96 likes

#154

“As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, allow, blistering, darkness, desire, falter, gain-power, light, mind, open, readily, shadow, sky, splinter, take-over, thoughtfulness, thoughts, unawareness, upbeat, views

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#155

“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (鈥淚 am on my own side, but I can listen 鈥� )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: allow, endure, gratification, instant, learn, listen, others, ourselves, patience, self-knowledge, show, side, take-a-life, take-time

96 likes

#156

“Understanding鈥� may become 鈥渕isunderstanding鈥�, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assumed, no specific objectives set, no definite expectations met and common values and interests no longer shared. Mutual understanding may then, against all odds, end up in heartache, confusion and bewilderment. ("Mutual understanding" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: against-all-odds, assume, bewilderment, commitment, common-values, confusion, end-up, expectations, heartache, interests, misunderstanding, mutual-understanding, objectives, responsibilities, share, specific, understanding

101 likes

#157

“When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ("Mes cliques et mes claques")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: backbiting, bogged-down-in, clogged-up-with, create, deadlock, dispiriting, emotional, enduring, energy, forlorn, hassle, house-of-cards, immaterial, lack-of-interest, lose, mes-cliques-et-mes-claques, painstaking, pitch, positive-thinking, relationships, remain, reshuffle, situations, spawn, stale, stay, stealthy, unbearable, under-attack

89 likes

#158

“Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, beauty, discovery, happiness, hell, hinge-on, intricate, journeys, meandering, mind, social-success, tangible, warrant, wellbeing

95 likes

#159

“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (鈥淒isruption鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act-in-line, architecture, astounded, behavior, bulls-in-a-china-shop, clash-with, create, disruption, dissension, disturbing, emotional, emotional-outlaws, inner-construction, living-environment, one-heck-of-a-mess, proceed, shocking, standards

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#160

“Some are in tune with the swanky, but not in tune with themselves. Their desire has become the desire of the others ('''Buying now. Dying later''')”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: buying, desire, dying, in-tune-with, later, swanky

92 likes

#161

“Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Pr锚t-脿-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: both, boys, compassion, condescendant, contribution, eminence, men, never-grow-up, pain, patience, prepared, proof, 辫谤锚迟-脿-辫别苍蝉别谤, raise, ready-to-wear, remain, sense-of-worth, spoiled, supercilious, thinking, women

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#162

“Hope may inspire and inveigle us, but we cannot just live on hope. Certainly, love can be hope, but it is merely a contingency, since it might either mend our life or break our heart. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: break, certainly, contingency, heart, hope, inspire, inveigle, live-on, love, mend, merely, since, smoke-signals, wait-for

93 likes

#163

“If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways. Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal, where things might have gone wrong. (鈥淚 wonder what went wrong.鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bunch, daintily, details, emtional, encounter, forgotten, go-wrong, hidden, knotty, knotty-points, life-story, mind, niceties, points, rabbit-hole, reveal, stowaways, try, unconsciouss, unravel, windmill, windmill-of-the-mind, wonder

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#164

“That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (鈥淐r茅puscule du d茅sir鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: closet, 肠谤茅辫耻蝉肠耻濒别, desire, discretion, fall-short, give-way, hidden, may, passion, unspoken

90 likes

#165

“Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men鈥檚 world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ( "Terra incognita")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aliens, codes, compass, crucial-points, discovering, dots, emerging, feel, future, hesitant, impervious, key, life, line-up, men-s-world, reality, terra-incognita, unbearability, uncharted-territory, women

86 likes

#166

“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the 鈥榓lleluias鈥� of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alleluia, birds, cluttered, decide, drop, eschew, flimsy, flow, fly-away, genuine, glow, graceful, life, lucid, makeshift, mind, new-morning, scenarios, self-importance, the-day, wellness, words

96 likes

#167

“When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. ("Taken for a ride)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bonfire, convulsion, emotional, endlessly, in-the-wake-of, linger, love, path-of-life, regret, remorse, seed, smolder, taken-for-a-ride

90 likes

#168

“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or in a no-man鈥檚-land of emotions. In their dogged and obstinate quest for the zenith of happiness, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of everyday and, thus, become disgruntled and depressed instead, which leads them to a mire of gloom. ("C鈥檈st quand le bonheur 鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blissful, confined, depressed, disgruntled, dogged, emotions, everyday, forget, gloom, guileless, happiness, hard, le-bonheur, mire, np-man-s-land, obstinate, propensity, recognize, remain, small-things, state-of-mind, surreal, take-pleasure-in-life, the-very-nature, unawareness, woeful

86 likes

#169

“Emotional illiterates, who don鈥檛 recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: broken-heart, dizzy, emotional, flora, illiterates, life, love, recognize, reverberate, rustling, sound, subtle, vibrations

94 likes

#170

“If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (鈥淗e did not know that she knew鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: boil-down-to, crunch, dwindle, know, life-style, living, make-believe, merry-go-round, munch, piece-by-piece, pretending, real-self, reshaping, schizophrenic, turn-into, world

88 likes

#171

“Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown should not frighten. ("Steps in the unknown" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brother-in-arms, creep, day, doom-and-gloom, frighten, future, lust-for-life, steps, unknown, wither

86 likes

#172

“Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: buried, horizon, know, memories, muddled, open, past, plain, skeletons, wade-into, where, why, yesterday

96 likes

#173

“If we don鈥檛 live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors鈥� reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the 鈥渨ho is who鈥�, the 鈥渨hat is what鈥� and the 鈥渨here is Waldo鈥�, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ("Fish for silence.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: be-aware, become, connectedness, daily, demonstrate, differ-from, discordant, endeavor, episode, find-out, fish, literacy, live, neighbors, range, reading, reality, shades, silence, social, surroundings, take, unrecognizable, vibe, where-is-waldo, who-is-who

89 likes

#174

“Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: clash, discomfort, distress, downbeat, emit, expectations, feel, fish, fortune-of-war, frustration, future, good-feeling, good-karma, joy, life, negative, oust, prejudice, realism, silence, step-into, war, war-and-peace, waves, what-will-be-will-be, zest

91 likes

#175

“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional 鈥渓ove forever鈥�- revelation has become a crumbling 鈥渓ove never, ever again鈥�- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blasted, bonds, crack-up, crumbling, easy, emotional, empty, grueling, hard, hate, irrevocably, love, love-forever, love-never-again, paradise-lost, revelation, room, route-back, simple, trust

90 likes

#176

“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the true colors of facts. ("Behind the frosted glass鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, bewilderment, break-apart, clear, colors, curb, dare, deny, dream, eyes-wide-open, face-up, facts, fantasy, frosted-glass, mind, reality, realness, rub, true, vision, wake-up, whirlwind, wrangle

94 likes

#177

“Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ( "All the words he always wanted to tell her.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blips-and-dips, memory, pig-headed, timeline, whims

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#178

“Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: betray, carefully, gap, kill, silence, words

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#179

“What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (鈥淚s heaven a place in the sky?鈥�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bloody, choose, colorful, declaration-of-war, faction, metaphors, read, sacred, spiritual, wohderful, world, writings

89 likes

#180

“Unfailing friends are essential, when 鈥榩resence鈥� and 鈥榓bsence鈥� are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend鈥�).”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, best-friend, daily-living, friends, lust-for-life, presence, rampage, reliable, trampled, wrangle

88 likes

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