--- title: "6 Remain Quotes By Erik Pevernagie" description: "6 Remain quotes by Erik Pevernagie. Plus more from Erik Pevernagie and more Remain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/159/erik-pevernagie-688_appearances_when-we-stay-locked-up-in-the-spectrum-o_651066.jpg" --- > [“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-we-stay-locked-up-in-the-spectrum-of-unsolved-life-stories-and/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/159/erik-pevernagie-688_appearances_when-we-stay-locked-up-in-the-spectrum-o_651066.jpg) > [“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/is-happiness-a-sort-of-blissful-state-of-mind-or-just-a-kind-of/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/954/erik-pevernagie-688_blissful_is-happiness-a-sort-of-blissful-state-of_965641.jpg) > [“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/people-who-don-t-construe-their-life-and-don-t-frame-their-own-tale/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e93/erik-pevernagie-688_act_people-who-don-t-construe-their-life-and_1256783.jpg) > [“When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which “was", no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-we-feel-lost-in-time-with-only-shadows-of-the-past-living-in-our/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/erik-pevernagie-688_arise_when-we-feel-lost-in-time-with-only-shad_1544364.jpg) > [“When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-relationships-lose-their-pitch-through-lack-of-interest-and/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/erik-pevernagie-688_backbiting_when-relationships-lose-their-pitch-thro_2477727.jpg) > [“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/some-may-remain-imprisoned-in-a-gridlock-of-lies-or-keep-on-blurring/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/erik-pevernagie-688_chopping-block_some-may-remain-imprisoned-in-a-gridlock_2934669.jpg) ## Other authors on Remain ## More by Erik Pevernagie > [“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/let-us-not-subside-into-a-single-mandatory-way-of-thinking-or-feeling/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“The world can spare psychopathic masterminds of fear, pushing the panic button all along. Instead, let us look at the unfettering light that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/the-world-can-spare-psychopathic-masterminds-of-fear-pushing-the/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/for-the-discovery-of-self-we-have-to-overcome-the-fear-of-self-so-as/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/if-we-want-to-decode-our-community-s-deep-seated-fibers-we-must-go/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-we-allow-ourselves-to-show-some-patience-and-take-time-to-listen/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/man-may-feel-like-a-feeble-and-powerless-pawn-at-some-moment-in-his/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-we-are-grappling-with-misery-and-our-heart-is-in-a-knot-we-may/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/the-day-we-decide-to-drop-the-flimsy-makeshift-scenarios-in-our/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“If the vibrant and frolicking merry-go-round of our daily living has been ousted by an eerie void of an intractable vacuum, only inspiriting memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/if-the-vibrant-and-frolicking-merry-go-round-of-our-daily-living-has/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/one-day-it-may-feel-as-if-energy-and-enthusiasm-are-quenched-feelings/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/let-us-find-inner-freedom-in-each-lucky-moment-that-we-encounter-like/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/it-is-so-simple-and-easy-to-hate-and-so-grueling-and-hard-to-love/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/giving-up-the-obsession-of-sign-values-and-the-subservient/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-people-s-parallel-truth-collides-with-their-real-truth-they-may/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) > [“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a to and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/love-is-a-challenge-with-an-illusion-emanating-an-aura-of-otherness/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/remain/erik-pevernagie/#itemlist", "name": "6 Remain Quotes By Erik Pevernagie", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. 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