It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground. Peter Høeg More Quotes by Peter Høeg More Quotes From Peter Høeg Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. Peter Høeg enjoy different people The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. Peter Høeg balance bridges reality I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration. Peter Høeg dark mean children The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. Peter Høeg our-actions trying lying The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain. Peter Høeg problem complaining impossible I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages. Peter Høeg mother two people Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps. Peter Høeg shame falling-in-love awareness There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves. Peter Høeg self children needs
