Arthur Japin quotes

“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”
-- Arthur Japin

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“Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.”
-- Arthur Japin

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“One can only learn what one doesn’t know.”
-- Arthur Japin

“Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.”
-- Arthur Japin

Source : "In Lucia's Eyes". Book by Arthur Japin, www.npr.org. 2006.

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“My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!”
-- Arthur Japin

Source : "'I was Casanova's very first lover'" by Laura Baggaley, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.

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“I felt before I thought, as all humans do.”
-- Arthur Japin

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“The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.”
-- Arthur Japin

“That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”
-- Arthur Japin

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“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.

“Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.”

Source : Adam Hamilton (2011). “The Journey, Expanded Large Print Edition: Walking the Road to Bethlehem”, p.73, Abingdon Press

“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”

“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.”

“The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.”

“I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.”

“There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'”

“I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.”

“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”

“I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.”