However mean your life is,

meet it and live it; 

do not shun it 

and call it hard names.

-  Henry David Thoreau - Walden - 

Pain is inevitable. 

Suffering is optional.

- Buddha - 

“...much of what was said did not matter, 

and that much of what mattered could not be said.” 

- Katherine Boo -

 http://www.goodreads.com

The absent are never without fault.
Nor the present without excuse.

- Michael Caine -

http://fan-tom.deviantart.com/art/Michael-Caine-170282094

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,

go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.

- Matthew -

"The moment you can visualize being free 

from the things that hold you back, 

you have indeed begun to set yourself free."

 - Author Unknown -

http://itreallyisadogslife.blogspot.be/2011/10/freedom.html

What is family?
They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless.
It wasn’t just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger.
We had many families over time.
Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers.
None of them perfect, and we couldn’t expect them to be.
You can’t make any one person your world.
The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.

- Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key -

 http://beautifulramblings.tumblr.com/

http://myowncircumnavigation.tumblr.com/post/31821786439

http://yoga9vipassana.tumblr.com/post/32399006873/yoga-nine-vipassana

 

"The difference 
between a mountain and a molehill 

is your perspective."

 
- Al Neuharth -

 http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1071_Making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill.html

Patience is a form of wisdom. 

It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact 

that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn - 

 

Monday - Ludovico Einaudi

By Robert Doisneau (1936)

"Don’t forget you’re alive. ‘Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you’re in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, I’m alive! We don’t know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing life is. Don’t forget you’re alive, that you’re not dead, for that is the greatest thing."

Joe Strummer

http://little-too-ironic.tumblr.com/post/29965191800/dont-forget-youre-alive-cause-sometimes-when

Ik zal pas echt bevrijd zijn 

vanaf het moment dat ik authentiek durf te zijn. 

Wanneer ik zonder me schuldig te voelen kwetsbaar durf te zijn,

zonder gène mijn mooie en minder mooie kanten durf te tonen

ook al vinden anderen het maar niets
of ga ik daarmee tegen de stroom in.

 

- Ann -

Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. 

Stories always go on. 

They don’t end on the last page,

any more than they begin on the first page.

 

- Cornelia Funke -

http://dailyreasontobehappy.tumblr.com/post/25670257581

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth. Not superficial costs—anybody can have that—I mean in truth. That’s what I write. What it really is like. I’m just telling a very simple story.

- Maya Angelou -  

Voltooi je geboorte!
Dat is de opgave van ons leven.
Die volbrengen we niet door te presteren,
maar door te zijn.
Het ervaren van het zijn,
het ervaren van ons diepste wezen,
dat is het huiswerk van ons leven.

- Willigis Jäger - Eeuwigheid in het NU -

Rouwen is ook verhalen mogen herhalen,

duizendmaal.

- Leo Vroman -

http://bealightinthedark.com/