Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

 the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Kahlil Gibran -

Almost. 

It's a big word for me.

 I feel it everywhere.

 Almost home. 

Almost happy. 

Almost changed.

 Almost, but not quite.

 Not yet.

 Soon, maybe.

 

 - Joan Bauer - 

For last year's words

 belong to last year's language 

And next year's words 

await another voice.

- T.S. Eliot -

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy 1977

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize:

 

 a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes.

 

 All is a miracle…

 

-  Thich Nhat Hanh -

Everything about yesterday

has gone with Yesterday.

Today,

it is needed to say New things.

- Rumi -

En de jaren vertellen ons 

wat de dagen niet wisten...

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Happiness is found along the way, 

 

not at the end of the road.  

 

- Sol Gordon -

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter,

 how they're experts at letting things go.

- Jeffrey McDaniel -

Itzhak Perlman - "Schindler's List Theme" -

Awareness perceives;

the mind interprets.

- Adyashanti -

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious.

 Too deep, too shallow. 

Too sensitive, too cold hearted. 

I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

- Ferdinand de Saussure -

There will always be people in your life

 who will try to make you miserable. 

Don’t help them by doing the job yourself!

 

- Laurell K. Hamilton -

De voet voelt de voet 

 

als de voet de grond voelt.

 

 

 

REMEMBER 

TO BREATHE 

Blind Devotion

Ons hoofd is rond 

 

zodat ons denken

 

 van richting veranderen kan.

 

 

Een feit kan niet 'kloppen' zoals een rekening klopt,

omdat we niet alle benodigde factoren kennen

maar slechts een paar elementen, meestal secundaire.

En dat wat toevallig, onberekenbaar, onmeetbaar is,

speelt een te grote rol.

- Friedrich Dürrenmatt -

What you believe 

makes an enormous difference 

in how your future will unfold.

- Ann Spangler -

Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. 

How do you know that the side you are used to

 is better than the one to come?

- Rumi -

L.I.P.

 

Live in Peace 

 

 

 

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of al.

- Whitney Houston -

I am free, no matter what rules surround me.

 If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;

 if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

 I am free because I know that I alone

 am morally responsible for everything I do. 

 

- Robert Heinlein-

 

 

 

 

Het leven is niet altijd een feest. 

Wie dat durft toegeven,

heeft een stapje voor.

Dirk De Wachter 

Fear is a thief

 

 because fear robs you 

 

before you even begin. 

 

- Bryant McGill -

This very moment is the perfect teacher, 

 

and, 

 

lucky for us,

 

 it’s with us wherever we are.  

 

- Pema Chödrön -

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it.

 See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath.

 You’ll be OK - even if you don’t feel OK all the time.

 

 

Grudges are toxic

because they preserve resentment

long after the reason for resentment dies out.

- Noor Shirazie -

http://bowiefication.tumblr.com

The trick is to keep moving forward,

 to let go of the fear and the regret that slows us down

 and keeps us from enjoying a journey 

that will be over too soon. 

 

Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road,

 shocking surprises we didn’t see coming…

 but that’s really the point, 

 don’t you think?

 

 

 

Trust the wait.

 Enjoy the uncertainty.

 Enjoy the beauty of becoming.

 When nothing is certain, 

anything is possible.

 

 

 

Could a greater miracle take place 

than for us to look

 through each other’s eyes for an instant?

 

- Henry David Thoreau -

 

 

 

Things to do today:

1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.

 

Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story  

 

 

 

 

I’m not totally useless. 

I can be used 

as a bad example.

 

 

I wish I could show you, 

when you are lonely or in darkness, 

the astonishing light 

of your own being.

 

- Hafiz of Shiraz -

We will be more successful in all our endeavors

 if we can let go of the habit of running all the time,

 and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves.

 And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

 

 -Thich Nhat Hanh -

Bedankt Frieda!

You do not need to take other people's pain
and suffering into your heart.
This world is filled with enough suffering
without trying to spread it.
Rather, touch the pain and suffering you find
and meet it with love and spaciousness.

This is what we call compassion.

- Lazy Yogi -

Knowing others is intelligence;

knowing yourself is true wisdom.

- Lao Tzu -

Press on.

 

 Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow

 

 as they are today. 

 

 

- Robert H. Schuller -

Marc Johns

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. 

But if you make up your mind to be happy,

 no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

 

- Paramahansa Yogananda -

Our past experiences may help shape us,

 but they only define who we are if we choose those definitions.

 

 We can be victims, or we can be survivors.

 

 We can be helpless and hopeless, or we can be badass warriors.

 

 In every moment of every day, the choice is ours.

 

 

 

Even in the darkest night,

 if you strike a match,

 the shadows will flee. 

This is a law of nature; 

the darkness yields to the light,

 no matter how small the flame.

- Jared White -

Creativity 

 

is the openness to play

 

 when everyone else 

 

wants to play it safe.

 

 

 

Marc Johns

All of our emotions are our babies. 

 

Treat them tenderly, care for them. 

 

Be with them. 

 

Understanding and compassion 

 

will ultimately transform them.

 

 

- Thich Nhat Hanh-

 

 

 

May I accept other beings, exactly as they are in this moment.
May I accept this moment exactly as it is.
May I accept myself exactly as I am in this moment.

- ​Michael Kewley -

If you understand everything, 

 

you must be misinformed.

 

 - Japanese proverb -

 The only normal people 

 

are the ones 

 

you don’t know very well.  

 

- Alfred Adler -

NO CLOUD 

HIDES THE SUN

FOREVER.

Those who spend their time

 looking for the faults in others,

usually make no time

 to correct their own.

 

- Art Jonak -