Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Laurens van der PostHuman beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens van der PostThe educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens van der PostOften I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
Laurens van der Post