Quotes by dutch authors

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza

Happiness Love Quality Solely Object Attached Depends Which Unhappiness

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. Corrie Ten Boom

Enemy Victory First Way Recognize Step First Step

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love. Henri Nouwen

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch Spinoza

First Wish Be The First More Taken None Proud Than Flattery Who

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Baruch Spinoza

Nature Absurd Contrary Whatsoever Reason

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. Baruch Spinoza

Speak World Men Would Would-Be Silent Had Same Happier Capacity

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking. Henri Nouwen

Prayer Fruit Beginning Content Source Goal End Basis Core

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Henri Nouwen

Life Property Illusion Life Is A Shared Much Based Violence Defended

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. Henri Nouwen

Life Spiritual Before Everyday Our Be Real Spiritual Life Only Beyond Joys Real Existence After Midst Pains Lived Now Here

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. Vincent Van Gogh

Love Good Energy Difficulties Side Gives True Always Love Always Brings

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. Vincent Van Gogh

Life God Suffering My Life Power Painting Something Both Well Greater Without Am Very Than Cannot Which Create

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Baruch Spinoza

Beautiful Nature You Confused Ugly Confusion Beauty Imagination Relation Our Deformity Would Only Attribute Order Either Warn Things

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom

Thoughts Fear Worry Inefficient Around Center Cycle

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness Heart Will Temperature Regardless Act Function

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus

Made Carpenter Only Remade Mankind

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions. Paul Polman

Freedom Protection Become Must Freedom From Fair Global Safe Forced Operating Wages Conditions Labor Discrimination Working Harassment Standard

The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics. Paul Polman

Work Hard Work You Human Being Passion Ethics About Purpose Driven Leaders Also Always Same Human Being Skills Hard Deeper Basic

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Vincent Van Gogh

Good Picture Good Picture Equivalent Deed Good Deed

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh

Looking Everywhere Paper Easy Poetry Putting Surrounds Us Alas

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. Baruch Spinoza

Ignorance Pride Despondency Self Greatest

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Baruch Spinoza

You Be True Astonished True New Ideas Well Well Known Known Because Accepted Does New Ideas Cease Many Therefore Thing