You can't lie

 to your soul 

- Irvine Welsh - 

 

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER 

 

 

 

Nobody will stop you from creating.

Do it tonight.

 Do it tomorrow. 

That is the way to make your soul grow...

 The kick of creation is the act of creating,

 not anything that happens afterward.

 I would tell all of you watching this screen: 

Before you go to bed, write a four line poem.

 Make it as good as you can. 

Don’t show it to anybody. 

 Put it where nobody will find it.

 And you will discover that you have your reward.

-   Kurt Vonnegut -

NITCH

 

 

 

 

Anyone 

who makes you lose your cool 

is making you aware

that you have to work 

on controlling yourself 

and your emotions. 

 

 

 

 

The best apology

is simply admitting your mistake. 

 

The worst apology

 is dressing up your mistake with rationalizations

 to make it look like you were not really wrong, 

but just misunderstood.

 

- Dodinsky -

 

 

WEES NOOIT JALOERS 

OP MENSEN 

MET WIE JE TOCH NIET ZOU WILLEN RUILEN

 

 

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Maybe home

 is nothing but two arms

 holding you tight

 when you’re at your worst.

- Yara Bashraheel -

 

 

 

THE TRAVELER

“Every time you leave home,

Another road takes you

Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.

New places that have never seen you

Will startle a little at your entry.

Old places that know you well

Will pretend nothing

Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself

Alone in a different way,

More attentive now

To the self you bring along,

Your more subtle eye watching

You abroad; and how what meets you

Touches that part of the heart

That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune

To the timbre in some voice,

Opening in conversation

You want to take in

To where your longing

Has pressed hard enough

Inward, on some unsaid dark,

To create a crystal of insight

You could not have known

You needed

To illuminate

Your way.

When you travel,

A new silence

Goes with you,

And if you listen,

You will hear

What your heart would

Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:

Make sure, before you go,

To take the time

To bless your going forth,

To free your heart of ballast

So that the compass of your soul

Might direct you toward

The territories of spirit

Where you will discover

More of your hidden life,

And the urgencies

That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,

Gathered wisely into your inner ground;

That you may not waste the invitations

Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,

And live your time away to its fullest;

Return home more enriched, and free

To balance the gift of days which call you.”

 

- John O’Donohue -

 

 Peace sounds

 like the sound 

of the ocean at night.

- Devin Leonardi -

 Two Friends on the Shore of Long Island (2009)

 

 

 

 You don't need to know

 with absolute certainty

 what the future will hold. 

You just have to trust

 that no matter what happens,

 you'll find a way 

to be okay. 

 

 

 

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable... 

 I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. 

I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours... 

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. 

I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned.

 I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing...

 If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

- Mary Oliver -

NITCH

 

 

 

 

Work on you 

for you

 

 

 

It's more important 

to master the cards you're holding 

than to complain 

about the ones your opponent was dealt. 

- Grimsley - 

 

 

 

- Forrest Gump - 

You live...sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. 

Then you read a book…or you take a trip…and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. 

The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness.

 The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure... 

Monotony, boredom, death.

 Millions live like this...without knowing it. 

They work in offices. 

They drive a car. 

They picnic with their families.

 They raise children. 

And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

-   Anais Nin -

NITCH

 

 

 I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.

- Mary Oliver - I Worried -