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> [The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as youve never explored before,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/the-age-of-leaders-has-come-and-gone-you-must-be-your-own-leader-now/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

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## More by Laurens van der Post

> [There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/there-is-a-way-in-which-the-collective-knowledge-of-mankind-expresses/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/man-is-never-alone-acknowledged-or-unacknowledged-that-which-dreams/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/you-cannot-take-the-life-of-your-times-further-than-you-have-taken/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/of-all-man-s-inborn-dispositions-there-is-none-more-heroic-than-the/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [Creativity and love come from the same source.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/creativity-and-love-come-from-the-same-source/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/human-beings-are-perhaps-never-more-frightening-than-when-they-are/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/the-age-of-leaders-has-come-and-gone-you-must-be-your-own-leader-now/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/i-suspect-it-was-the-old-story-of-the-implacable-necessity-of-a-man/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/in-a-profound-sense-every-man-has-two-halves-to-his-being-he-is-not/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/life-is-its-own-journey-presupposes-its-own-change-and-movement-and/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/the-educating-of-the-parents-is-really-the-education-of-the-child/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [“We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/we-may-not-be-able-to-stop-and-undo-the-hard-old-wrongs-of-the-great/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [“As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/as-the-natural-coherence-of-the-world-vanishes-there-s-a-guilt-that/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [“It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/it-s-the-not-yet-in-the-now-the-taste-of-the-fruit-that-does-not-yet/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

> [“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/modern-man-has-lost-the-sense-of-wonder-about-the-unknown-and-he/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

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