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#61

“In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. (“The upper lip must never tremble”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, authentic-emotion, come-up-short-of, dormancy, empathy, obituary, spoiled, tremble, upper-lip, world

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#62

“While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles' unlimited rule, we may be able to relish the fragrance of the ‘moment’ but also sense the vital spark and spirit of “otherness”. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: addiction, alents, blind-alley, comfort-zone, connectivity, curl-down, designers, drive, fragrance, go-down, however, impede, mobiles, otherness, perverted, rulerelish, save, sense, spark, spirit, succeed, surreptitious, the-moment, unlimited, vital, world

90 likes

#63

“Nonsense can be an ingenious architect of sense, as it may turn things upside down and, so doing, sharpen our perception, stir our imagination, clear our mind and refine our judgment. Like poetry might interlock with science, and emotion with intellect, so are sense and nonsense relentlessly interacting and this interplay enriches the filigree of our thinking pattern. (“Drunken ship” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: drunken-ship, emotion, fiigree, imagination, interacting, interplay, nonsense, perception, sense, thinking-pattern

88 likes

#64

“When we feel the cards are stacked against us, and we have to confront the arresting questions of our walks of life, we may happen to face up to an “apocalypse.” When we meet head-on a disclosure of a “new” truth and come to terms with the destruction of our “old” reality, the disparity might be very challenging, but conceivably liberating as well. ("Looking for the unexpected" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apocalypse, arresting-questions, cards-are-stacked, challenging, disclosure, disparity, liberating, new-truth, old-reality, walk-of-life

81 likes

#65

“Money doesn't make unhappy unless happiness is thrust way beyond the realms of possibility due to a desperate obsession or a frantic addiction. (“Rocking and rolling “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: addiction, frantic, happiness, money, obsession, unhappy

79 likes

#66

“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

92 likes

#67

“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

97 likes

#68

“Life may be an arcane riddle, a play with many complementary acts or an unfinished chronicle with odd sequences. Still and all, whatever we might think or do, let us above all be attentive and expectant, since everyone is waiting for the pieces to fall into place, at one time or another. ("Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attentive, chronicle, complementary, drunken, expectant, life, riddle, sailor, sequence

81 likes

#69

“As we feel the whispering vibrations of the sea and hover on the waves of the present, we realize that each moment flows into an unknown destination. Everything melts down into a new mystery since 'now' will never come back, and 'tomorrow' is uncharted territory. ("Voices of the sea")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: destination, mystery, now, present, sea, tomorrow, uncharted-territory, vibrations, waves, whispering

85 likes

#70

“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… 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

96 likes

#71

“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

98 likes

#72

“More than once, “Gsoh,” seems to be in confrontation with “Gsoh:” welfare at war with welfare, material and cerebral prerogatives at war. Gsoh, “Good Salary, own House,” may, however, make peace with “Gsoh,” “Good Sense of Humor.” A good mixture of substantial and mental qualities may not only lead to an excellent balance of the mind but also fill a nice basket of wittiness, as vital support in life. ("Should I shave first?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balance, cerebral, gsoh, humor, material, mind-wittiness, prerogative, salary, welfare

78 likes

#73

“When people’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. (“The day the mirror was talking back”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

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

97 likes

#74

“The Smartphone has become a young divine embodying the ultimate desire and saving us from droopiness or lack of care and concern. It is the epitome of happiness, encompassing pleasure and contentment, but for sure does not allow woe and depression. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: care-and-concern, depression, desire, droopiness, epitome, happiness, mobile, smartphone

82 likes

#75

“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: comprehensive, fly-on-the-wall, framework, identity, labyrinth, memory, mind, pattern, scenario

86 likes

#76

“Let’s not wait until the light fades into irreparable loss, but let’s stay in the loop and pursue the momentous flow of daily little wonders, since life kindly tenders us gorgeous bouquets of sparkling colors, telling signs and rousing episodes. (“Côté cour…Côté jardin”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bouquet, colors, côté-cour-côté-jardin, daily, episode, fade-in, flow, gorgeous, in-the-loop, irreparable, kindly, life, light, loss, momentous, pursue, rousing, signs, sparkling, stay, telling, tender, wait, wonders

89 likes

#77

“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

#78

“Our best enemy is the one who challenges us, and so doing, teaches us to set out to discover our potentials, while our worst friend is the one who is numbing us and lulling us into complacency, always being consenting or acquiescent. ("Being my best friend.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acquiescent, challenge, complacency, consenting, enemy, friend, lulling, numbing, potentials

79 likes

#79

“Between our craves and our regrets stands the live stage of the presence that must give meaning and consistency and feel-good vibes to our life. At the same time, it raises the power of positivity and reconciles the history of our past with the expectations of the future. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: consistency, craves, expectaions, feel-good-vibes, future, meaning, past, positivity, presence, regrets

81 likes

#80

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: backyard, exhilarating, fables, fairy-tales, fiction, flattering, give-in, inconsistent, inspiring, outbreaks, perfume, praise, precious, tempted, true-self, truths, unvarnished

92 likes

#81

“When love gets on a slippery slope, unawareness or indifference might be the underpinning of disenchantment and falling out of love. (“Amour en friche”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disenchantment, fall-out-of-love, indifference, love, slipery-slope, unawareness, underpinning

87 likes

#82

“In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the heads of the grassroots people that cannot see the writing on the wall and have to remain in the cold, like dumb puppets on a string. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: copiously, dispatched, dog-whistle, dumb, grassroots-people, messages, over-the-heads, politics, puppets-on-a-string, remain-in-the-cold, rough-and-tumble-play, writing-on-the-wall

90 likes

#83

“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

95 likes

#84

“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’s-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’est quand le bonheur “)”
― 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

88 likes

#85

“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

94 likes

#86

“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

96 likes

#87

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: animal, arcane, arrest, contagious, emotion, exude, fear, history, musty, mystical, provoke, scent, sensual, smell, whistleblower

89 likes

#88

“In the turbulent art arena they all pitch in and do their dubious and mercantile part in the rocambolesque saga of the art since so many judge art with their ears and the sound of the money. (“When is art?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arena, art, dubious, ears, judge, mercantile, money, rocambolesque, saga, turbulent

81 likes

#89

“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

89 likes

#90

“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience, we may miss out the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authencity, beam, brilliance, essential, experience, individual, life, miss-out, move-forward, vibration

86 likes

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