So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.
I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.

- John Green -

The best thing is life 

is finding someone

who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses

and still thinks the world of you. 

Wie zijn fouten ontkent 

kan er ook niets uit leren. 

change the situation

 

 or

 

 change your mindset towards it

DANKBAARHEID 

VEROUDERT 

SNEL. 

- Aristoteles - 

Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baila

Merci Frieda!

No regrets.

Just lessons learned. 

Bedankt Joost!

Painful truth 

 

is better

 

 than a pleasant lie.

 

 

- Bryant McGill -

Let us not look back in anger,

 nor forward in fear, 

but around in awareness.

- James Thurber -

Don’t find fault, 

find a remedy; 

anybody can complain.

- Henry Ford -

The best way to capture moments

 

 is to pay attention. 

 

- Jon Kabat-Zinn -