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#1

“A dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms a man’s life into a paradise of complicity and mutual sympathy, arousing at the same time an instinct of playfulness that many people have lost since their young age and that puts things in new perspectives.( "I am young and have no dog")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: complicity, dog, new-perspectives, oxytocin, patience, playfulness, significant-other, sympathy, trust, youth

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#2

“Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies who is who, who is foe, who is friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only, when the mind has become accustomed to the various facial types, people might drop their prejudices and their fear. (- "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: countenance, danger, deviant, facial-discrimination, fear, human-brain, mind, prejudices, uggly-mug

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#3

“People may implant their footprints in our walk of life and engrave their seal in our thinking; and their shadow may escort us throughout our whole life, remaining steady companions or permanent witnesses. They can, then, become points of reference that we can consult at any time. ("Not without you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: engrave, escort, footprints, implant, point-of-reference, seal, shadow, thinking, walk-of-life, witnesses

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#4

“Relatedness and interaction between individuals may have lost their drive and liability. In our contemporary “brave new world", traditional trust or generous receptiveness has been replaced by ‘security devices’ and ‘safety gadgets’. (“Could we leave the door unlocked?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brave-new-world, door, interaction, liability, receptiveness, relatedness, safety-gadgets, security-devices, traditional, trust

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#5

“Life is a time span where people mostly do not see the wood for the trees, wondering what may be the accurate answers to the numerous questions that they have assembled throughout their life, how they might prevent their perception from contradicting the reality of the world of their daily experience and how they can find out the actual standards to measure the soundness of their assumptions. Whichever way, no matter how they ponder, they have no other choice than keeping on looking for Waldo or for Wally. (“How high is too far?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: assumptions, contradict, experience, life, looking-for-waldo, perception, ponder, soundness, standards, time-span

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#6

“Ever and again, our mind may become befuddled when we have to find out what is heads or tails. Ever and again, bewilderment may strike our brain when we have to interpret the contrasts between the dark and the bright sides of things when we have got to read complex cases and assess the divergences between the iridescent outward appearances and the grisly undercurrents of particular characters. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: befuddled, bewilderment, contrasts, divergence, grisly, heads-or-tails, iridescent, mind, outward-appearances, undercurrent

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#7

“When the underlying structure of our freedom is in jeopardy, we do well to be concerned about our whistle-blowers, since blinking beacons are essential to secure a living together in a dependable social framework. (" High noon.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beacons, blinking, dependable, freedom, jeopardy, secure, structure, underlying, whistle-blower

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#8

“In point of fact, life may be just a shaky expectation, inasmuch as everyone realizes that the cards have often been shuffled, well in advance.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cards-you-have-been-dealt, expectation, in-advance, in-point-of-fact, life, shaky, shuffle

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#9

“Social counterpoints can be a shrieking reality. But life may nevertheless become a colorful canvas with an array of opportunities, allowing us to escape from the suffocation of our enclosure if we hold ourselves receptive to the healing power of the daily little marvels and stay aware of the vivifying unexpectedness of the ‘moment’. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: canvas, counterpoint, enclosure, moment, opportunities, reality, receptive, shrieking, suffocation, unexpectedness

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#10

“Neighborship is a universal dialectic phenomenon. Good neighborship has a contingent status since it may procure either balance, trust and peace of mind or entail limits, barriers, and fences that can be a protection or conjure up feelings of exclusion, creating inhibitions and frustrations.( "Beware of the neighbor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: barriers, dialectic, exclusion, fences, inhibitions, neighborship, trust, universal

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#11

“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live in the confined inner court of their being, cramped within the fence of their mind. Only imagination may arouse a spark of expectation, stir up resilience and create an equitable prospect.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bright-side, contingency, equitable, expectation, get-all-the-breaks, imagination, inner-court, mind, resilience, spectrum

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#12

“Important is not so much our place in the theater of the world but our acceptance in the theater of our inner self. ("Victory daze" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, daze, inner-self, place, theater, victory, world

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#13

“In actual fact, if we want to understand whether things are chicken feed or not, we must learn to distinguish instrumental value from intrinsic value and recognize the difference between relative value and absolute value. ( "This is no chicken feed")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absolute-value, chicken-feed, instrumental-value, intrinsic-value, relative-value

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#14

“Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and discern the crackling in the brushwood of our emotions, so we may recognize the tokens of the heartbeats we might miss and value the quality and the bite of our life story. ("This is no chicken feed")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bite, brushwood, clamor, crackling, discern, emotions, heartbeats, quality, recognize, tokens

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#15

“While times are changing at a lightning-fast pace, new rules exact inexorable adjustments, in line with our encounters, consistent with our experiences, and in step with our needs. If they appear, however, to be incompatible with our inner self, they may raise a hell of a war in our mind and compel us to take to the hills. (“If he doesn't play ball»)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: adjustments, encounters, experiences, incompatible, inner-self, mind, play-ball, rules, take-to-the-hills, war

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#16

“How should one keep a balanced spirit, if the standards in our lives and in the world are constantly reshuffled? Come rain or shine, let’s not fear our own shadow or desperately simmer down whistling in the dark, but let’s speak up and make our point, and comprehend ourselves in our surroundings, with our very own individuality. (“Was it all worthwhile?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balanced-sprit, come-rain-or-shine, fear-one-s-shadow, make-one-s-point, reshuffle, simmer-down, speak-up, standards, whistle-in-the-dark

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#17

“Since love and hate can be fierce partners in crime, it is highly recommended to trace any early indicia of the fault lines in a shaky relationship in order to avert irreparable damage. ("Mes cliques et mes claques" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: avert, damage, fault-lines, hate, indicia, irreparable, love, partners-in-crime, relationship, shaky

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#18

“Fear can be a first-rate stool pigeon, a precious safeguard or a wise counselor. If it overwhelms us, we would do well not to shrink back and sulk, but crystallize our potentials, think forward and objectify our goals. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: counselor, crystallize, fear, objectify, safeguard, shrink-back, stool-pigeons, sulk, think-forward

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#19

“If we feel affected by the dreariness of the mad scramble, we have to stand back, take a break and override the droning humdrum of the treadmill; and let the exaltation of the day decide; and follow inspiring pathways to the true heartbeat of our life. ("Mutatis mutandi")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: decide, dreariness, exaltation, heartbeat, humdrum, inspiring, mad-scramble, mutatis-mutandi, stand-back, treadmill

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#20

“If people in power are artfully pulling a red herring to cover up the cataclysm of their commitments, keeping people on a short leash and driving them playfully into an alley of false promises, we would do well to rely on attentive and considerate observers who send out alarm signals in time to prevent social corrosion. (" High noon. ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alarm-signal, attentive, be-in-power, cataclysm, commitments, corrosion, observer, promises, pull-a-red-herring, social

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#21

“The timeless moments between ‘being in the nick of time’ and ‘missing out’ may captivate our thinking and arouse a spell of time traveling. Those moments may be unsuspected anchor points in our lives, confer an astounding depth to our daily experiences and throw a stunning light on the history of our being. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, depth, in-the-nick-of-time, missing-out, spell, thinking, time-travelling, timeless-moments

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#22

“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and find the right answers to prickly questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things, before persistently changing the very things and altering their hallmark. (“Life out there “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, change, hallmark, life, perception, prickly, privilege, surprises

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#23

“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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#24

“We do well to be our paramount ‘significant one’. Being our best friend entails respecting ourselves, recognizing our way of living and accepting what we are and how we are. It can give us the power to understand and appreciate the others. ("Being my best friend").”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acceptance-of-oneself, appreciating-people, best-friend, how-we-are, paramount, respect-oneself, significant-one, understanding-others, way-of-living, what-we-are

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#25

“As people tend to ring-fence their privacy they become ever-more “incommunicado”, deliberately untouchable. By retreating in the secrecy of the safe haven of their living, their habitats become impregnable castles, with the draw-bridges of non-attendance always up. Adopting an attitude of "ghosting", constantly shamming ‘absence’, homes gradually become ghost houses and, extensively, communities grow into ghost towns. (“Could we leave the door unlocked?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, draw-bridge, ghost-house, ghost-town, ghosting, impregnable, privacy, ring-fence, safe-haven, untouchable

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#26

“We are permanently walking on a very thin ice whenever we try to measure lasting values in an ever-changing and utterly edgy society, whenever we must define long-term objectives in a short-term spirit. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: define, edgy-society, ever-changing, lasting-value, long-term-objective, measure, short-term-spirit, walking-on-a-thin-ice, worthwhile

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#27

“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

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#28

“Let us thrust aside all the “questions with a single answer”, since the starkness of our imagination can earmark a bountiful logbook to conjure up a widening array of groovy and relevant replies to impending insidious questions. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: earmark, imagination, impending, insidious, questions, relevant, replies, single-answer, weightiness

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#29

“Cordial or commercial, that may be the question. How pleasant is it not, to experience the instantaneity and the radiance of a sunny smile or to scent unsuspectingly an air of friendly willingness. In contrast, however, how smashingly disheartening is it not when everything appears to be merely contrived or profit driven and anything but cordial or empathic. The magic of genuine feelings is a precious value and has to be cherished and remain uncorrupted. We mustn’t consent to feelings being faked or deteriorated. ("A Thousand times touched." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: commercial, cordial, disheartening, empathic, faked, instantaneity, magic, radiance, unsuspecting, willingness

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#30

“Some don’t even watch art with their eyes nor with their mind, but with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of money. (
“Money rocking and rolling”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: art, ears, eyes, judge, mind, money, rock-and-roll, sound, watch

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