Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone elses opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde -
zaterdag 11 mei 2013
- Marcel Proust -Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth.
Most people are just trying to get through the day.
Be committed to learn from the day.
Don't just get through it; learn from it.
Take from it.
Let the day teach you.
Join the university of life.
What a difference that will make in your future.
Commit yourself to learning.
Commit yourself to absorbing.
Be like a sponge.
Get it.
Don't miss it."
Be committed to learn from the day.
Don't just get through it; learn from it.
Take from it.
Let the day teach you.
Join the university of life.
What a difference that will make in your future.
Commit yourself to learning.
Commit yourself to absorbing.
Be like a sponge.
Get it.
Don't miss it."
-
Jim Rhon -
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education
- is the ability
- to make yourself do the thing you have to do,
- when it ought to be done,
- whether you like it or not;
- it is the first lesson that ought to be learned;
- and however early a man's training begins,
- it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
vrijdag 10 mei 2013
I think about the life I live
A figure made of clay
And think about the things I lost
The things I gave away
And when I'm in a certain mood
I search the house and look
One night I found these magic words
In a magic book
Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day
And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you
There's a hand to rock the cradle
And a hand to help us stand
With a gentle kind of motion
As it moves across the land
And the hand's unclenched and open
Gifts of life and love it brings
So keep your hand wide open
If you're needing anything
Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day
And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you
Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day
And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you
- Abbey Lincoln -
Listen here :
Een gezin gaat uit eten.
De ouders geven ieder hun bestelling door aan de serveerster.
Hun vijfjarig dochtertje doet hetzelfde: 'Ik wil graag een hot dog, Franse frietjes en een Cola.'
'Oh neen, geen sprake van', zegt de papa.
Hij richt zich tot de serveerster en zegt: 'Voor mijn dochter een gehaktbal, aardappelpuree en een glas melk.'
De serveerster kijkt het kind glimlachend aan en vraagt: 'En, schatje, wat voor saus wil je op je hot dog?'
De serveerster loopt weg en laat de ouders stomverbaasd achter.
Na enige ogenblikken zegt het kleine meisje met stralende ogen:
'Ze gelooft dat ik echt ben.'
Uit Met hart en ziel: wijze verhalen uit alle tijden
van Christina Feldman en Jack Kornfield.
Foto: http://momitforward.com/giveaway-hunts-ultimate-summertime-party-basket-including-100-target-gift-card/girl-with-hot-dog-and-ketchup
Foto: http://momitforward.com/giveaway-hunts-ultimate-summertime-party-basket-including-100-target-gift-card/girl-with-hot-dog-and-ketchup
Gesneden Brood - Geert Nys
'Ik wil met niemand ruilen'
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=BF1S76HJ
https://picasaweb.google.com/artdepot.be/GeertNys#5341254415925543410
Impressie van de inspirerende en humoristische lezing
'Omgaan met
verandering' van spreker Jaap Bressers.
De manier hoe je omgaat met
tegenslagen,
bepaalt de kwaliteit van je leven.
Jaap Bressers kwam op 21 jarige leeftijd door een duikongeval in een
rolstoel terecht. Hij ging niet bij de pakken neerzitten, rondde zijn
universitaire opleiding af en werd spreker. Hij geniet volop van het
leven en inspireert met zijn lezingen anderen om ook net dat beetje
extra uit het leven te halen. Zowel in je privé leven als op zakelijk
gebied. Thema's als omgaan met verandering, toegevoegde waarde en talent
benutten zijn een greep van de mogelijke onderwerpen.
Bekijk ook: http://www.jaapbressers.nl
donderdag 9 mei 2013
"Water does not resist. Water flows.
When you plunge your hand into it,
all you feel is a caress.
Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you.
But water always goes where it wants to go,
and nothing in the end can stand against it.
Water is patient.
Dripping water wears away a stone.
Remember that, my child.
Remember you are half water.
If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it.
Water does."
- Margaret Atwood -
Among other things, you’ll find that you’re
not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even
sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score,
you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just
as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some
of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you
want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will
learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And
it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
- J.D. Salinger -
woensdag 8 mei 2013
"Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment,
irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad
news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that
we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel
we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show
us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment
is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we
are."
maandag 6 mei 2013
Wegfietsend vraag ik me nog
even af waar men zo geconcentreerd is als bij de tandarts. Waar men zich
zo bewust is van zijn ademhaling, van de wijze waarop men ligt, van de
kleding die men aanheeft, van de mate van geschorenheid en algemene
verzorgingsgraad. Dat heldere bewustzijn, die volkomen overgave – hoe
goed zou het zijn om vaker, al was het maar een kwartier, zo door te
brengen, en ook de kleinste gewaarwording het volle pond te geven.
- Nicolaas Matsier, Dicht bij huis -
- Nicolaas Matsier, Dicht bij huis -
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