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title: "1 Life Times Quotes By Laurens van der Post"
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> [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/)

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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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