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#91

“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. (“Just for a moment”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

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

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#92

“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

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#93

“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

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#94

“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. (“Buying now, dying later”)”
― 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

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#95

“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

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#96

“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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#97

“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

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#98

“When some claim demarcation and “regulation”, others fancy “deregulation”, 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. (“This far”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

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

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#99

“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

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#100

“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

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#101

“If the glare of the public eye has become unbearable, our inner child may claim its rights and our bodily shadow might turn into our mental second self, become our anchor, make us stay grounded and grant us deepness and intensity. By retreating from the blaze of display into our substantial self, we gain rootedness, insight and new worldly wisdom. ("Not without my shadow")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blaze, claim-on, glare, grounded, inner-child, insight, public-eye

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#102

“Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abide-by, blowing-in-the-wind, discontent, exertion, fake, happiness, happy, hard, houses-of-cards, knock-down, prefer, roll-up, sleeves

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#103

“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- 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

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#104

“We can only speak true, talk straight and be outspoken, if we prove to be able to decrypt the veiled elements of the puzzle inside and outside our environment; describe the intricacies of the social constructions and the emotional sensitivities; analyze the feasible contingencies and practical options; arbitrate and come to sensible conclusions; and invent pragmatic proposals and equitable solutions. (“Mutilated memory”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arbitrate, decrypt, environment, memory, mutulated, outspoken, pragmatic, sensitivities, speak-true

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#105

“Since many are confronted with an eerie void, lacking essential qualities in their daily repertoire and suffering from missing out on a second or third dimension in their lives, they feel disjointed and disgruntled, unconsciously struggling to find out a kind of strategy to “construct” or to "reconstruct" their living. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bread, construct, disgruntled, disjointed, eerie-void, missing-out, reconstruct, repertoire, second-dimension, strategy

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#106

“The day we recognize we must let go and drop questionable priorities in life, we understand we must accept to follow our inner compass and find harmony with ourselves. Through the flow between buoyancy and acceptance, we can reach a state of awakening and enlightenment. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acceptance, awakening, buoyancy, enlightenment, handful-of-dust, inner-compass, let-go, priorities

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#107

“As our life is our main provisional value, ‘taking the time’ to interpret our experiences is a momentous choice. Time, life and choice outline a trilogy that can solve and unite so as to vanquish the powerlessness which we might face on our path. (Could time be patient?)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: choice, interpret, life, path, powerlessness, provisional-value, time, trilogy, vanquish

83 likes

#108

“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that everything is just a deplorable misunderstanding, may soothe their conscience and let them walk out easily on their pledge. (“Breeze of freedom)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscience, desert, expectations, freedom, fresh-breeze, lighthearted, misunderstanding, pledge, pretending, promise

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#109

“Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture a personal satisfaction for those who like to set a paramount task or to create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience. (“Sisyphus on the hill.)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absurdity, compassionate-action, heroes, paramount, personal-satisfaction, resilience, sisyphus, task

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#110

“The fragmentation of our awareness may trigger dizzying vertigo in the chaos of our living. As such, an overwhelming flurry of connectivity and images generate thereby an oversaturation in our brain and the overabundance makes us anxious, fractured and insecure. This might, in turn, actuate us to cut the wire with the world and stumble into an estranging and contentious cocoon of self-absorption, while off-loading the lush supply of social interaction. Life becomes, then, an intricate maneuvering ground for walking a fine line between sound connectedness and crumbling consciousness, between unflinching cohesion and atomizing fragmentation. ("Give me more images")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, cocoon, cohesion, connectivity, consciousness, fragmentation, maneuvring-ground, oversaturation, self-absorption, walk-a-fine-line

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#111

“After tail spinning into chaos, one needs a bolt-hole, to resource and ‘challenge’ oneself, break free from the haunting constrictions, squirrel back into bouncy and buoyant surroundings and enjoy the many laugh-out-loud-moments of the day. As soon as one manages to wobble out of one’s shell, everything may click into place again and the radiance and glare of the bright side of life might show again. ("Imbroglio")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bolt-hole, bouncy, buoyant, challenge, chaos, constrictions, shell, squirrel-back, tail-spinning, wobble

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#112

“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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#113

“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disclose, discovery-of-oneself, fear-of-self, marrow, overcome, story, true-self, within

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#114

“We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: assess, at-the-end, construction, plot, story, value

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#115

“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. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

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

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#116

“Some may be more fortunate than others, and many might feel more like second bests, not sure how to survive. Not seeing the light on their path, they keep on living with fear. Albeit social security systems may be supportive existential anxiety subsists, crushing their identity. Only by converting 'fear' into a challenge, we can grit our teeth, strengthen resilience, and brighten up the dimness in our minds. ("A new life with Schengen"")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, existential-anxiety, fear, fortunate, identity, light, resilience, schengen, second-best, survive

80 likes

#117

“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

#118

“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, childhood, consciousness, core, fight, give-back, hard-time, haven, illusions, innocence, maze, mind, not-without, past, thinking

90 likes

#119

“Why some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. (“If he doesn't play ball » )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apprehension, breathing-space, identity, marginalization, reflection, self-determination, society, sovereignty, stressless, thoughtful

85 likes

#120

“Let us not focus on the chink in the canvas of the darkness but look at the light piercing through it. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: canvas, chink, darkness, final-decision, focus, light, pierce

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