zaterdag 19 april 2014

He had learned that it was the smallness of people that filled him with wonder and tenderness, and the loneliness of that too.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing it for a long time.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

An interview with Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Har...

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Wanneer ik me laat beïnvloeden door het probleem,
word ik een deel van het probleem.
Als ik kalm blijf,
word ik een deel van de oplossing.

- Marianne Williamson -

www.dagelijksegedachte.nl

You’re told that you’re in your head too much,

a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.

Or maybe there’s another word for such people:

thinkers.

- Susan Cain, Quiet -

http://supruntu.tumblr.com/post/83120690475

Fake people have an image to maintain.

Real people just don’t care.

- Unknown -

Francisco de Zurbarán

vrijdag 18 april 2014

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them…

life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

- Gabriel García Márquez -

http://thisisnthappiness.com/image/83110516108

Now is now.

Are you going to be here or not?

- Ram Dass -

R.I.P. Gabriel García Márquez

http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/gabriel-garcia-marquez-suffering-from-dementia/

If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.

If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.

If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.

If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.

-Gabriel García Márquez -

http://gabrielayareliz.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/

donderdag 17 april 2014

Prachtig boek!

http://mustreads.nl/recensie-de-onwaarschijnlijke-reis-van-harold-fry-rachel-joyce/

Wie het kleine niet eert,

doet het grote verkeerd.

- Paul Scheffer -

www.citaten.net

www.ppmapartments.com

In the name of God,

stop a moment,

cease your work,

look around you.

- Leo Tolstoy -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82904792408

In quoting others,

we cite ourselves.

- Julio Cortázar -

Loss is a fact of life.

Impermanence is everywhere we look.

We lose loved ones.

We lose our health.

We lose our glasses.

We lose our memory.

We lose our money.

We lose our keys.

We lose our socks.

We have to come to terms with this reality.

How we deal with them is what makes all the difference.

For it is not what happens to us

that determines our character,

but how we relate to what happens.

- Lama Surya Das, Working with Loss -

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-family-portraits/

Verhoudingen en patronen in families zijn meestal "oud",

ingesleten en ingewikkeld;

wie daarin verandert, ontmoet weerstand;

oefen geduld met de familieleden om te wennen;

oefen je in het liefdevol aanvaarden van je familieleden,

precies zoals ze zijn

- alleen dit geeft hen de ruimte om insgelijks te doen.

- Ton Admiral -

http://www.buddhistmedia.com/forum.aspx?lIntForumId=6&lIntEntityId=35

If you want to be seen, stand up.
 If you want to be heard, speak up.
 If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

- Bill Cosby -

www.blackenterprise.com

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82928788138

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82972512808

woensdag 16 april 2014

A moment comes when "other"

is no longer other.

Ram Dass

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82898983948

“Can we stop waiting
for the life we want to live,
and live it instead?”

tylerknott.com

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82887750012

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us

as dogs and horses.

Herman Melville

Life was very different

when you walked through it.

Rachel Joyce

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

dinsdag 15 april 2014

www.tributes.com

Wislawa Szymborska,

schrijft hoe ze onder een boom zit en

hoe ze aan het genieten is van

‘het gras dat aan de aarde is genaaid’,

en de bedenking maakt :

,,Wanneer ik zoiets zie,

verlaat me altijd de zekerheid

dat wat belangrijk is

belangrijker is dan wat onbelangrijk is.”

http://www.woordenwisseling.com/szymborskabelang.htm

powerofpositivity.net

We're all just

walking each other home.

Ram Dass

Goedgemutst

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82769953505/zoeyandjasper-hey-polar-vortex-people-stay

If anything or anyone distresses you,

think how you’ll feel a week - a month - a year later.

If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then,

why waste all that time?

Be happy and peaceful now.

- Swami Kriyananda -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82783286373/wonderous-world-eagle-on-ice-by-james-geddes

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone,

it has to be made, like bread;

remade all the time, made new.

– Ursula K. Le Guin -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82723739908

Three things you can’t recover in life …

The moment, after it’s passed

The words, after they’re spoken and

The time, after it’s lost.

- Unknown -

Namaste

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82719134483/gyslouve-namaste-http-wp-me-s4skfg-namaste

Waarom zou een wonder geen wonder zijn

alleen omdat een ander het niet ziet?

- Arthur Japin -

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82744360423

Incredible change happens in your life

when you decide to take control

of what you do have power over

instead of craving control over what you don’t.

- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free -

http://naturesdoorways.tumblr.com/post/82727412744/zoeyandjasper-never-go-on-adventures-without

Finally I am coming to the conclusion
that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself
unless I first accept myself,
and if I accept myself fully in the right way,
I will already have surpassed myself.

– Thomas Merton -

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82483745423

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control,

sometimes patience is the only answer.

Press pause.

- Douglas Rushkoff -

http://supruntu.tumblr.com/post/82705074944/lester-talkington-skipping-rope-1950

maandag 14 april 2014

Nu is alles wat je ooit zult hebben

The trees are coming into leaf Like
something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles
thresh In fullgrown thickness every May.

Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

- Philip Larkin, The Trees -

Les Marins d'Iroise - Santiano

't moet niet altijd vlug zijn

Ik ga traag nog eens ...

http://thisisnthappiness.com/image/82608648344

Never apologize for showing feeling.

When you do so,

you apologize for the truth.

- Benjamin Disraeli -

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82627038942/maboulunette-comme-chien-et-chat

Could.
Should.
Will.
Until.

- Jim Rohn -

http://scootaway.tumblr.com/post/82636404888

zondag 13 april 2014

Wat we willen:
Momenten
Van helderheid
Of beter nog: van grote
Klaarheid
Schaars zijn die momenten
En ook nog goed verborgen
Zoeken heeft dus
Nauwelijks zin, maar
Vinden wel
De kunst is zo te leven
Dat het je overkomt
Die klaarheid, af en toe

- Martin Bril -

Verzameld werk. Gedichten. © Amsterdam, 2002.

http://vimeo.com/8169136

denk klein

DOE GROOT

www.death2ur.com

Dood zal ik alleen voor de levenden zijn,

niet voor mezelf.

Ik bedoel, ik kan niet dood zijn.

Dood zijn altijd anderen.

- Harry Mulisch -