If anyone tells you that a person speaks ill of you,

 

 don’t make excuses about what is said of you,

 

 but answer:

 

 ‘He does not know my other faults,

 

 or he would not have mentioned only these.’

 

- Epictetus -

THUIS 

is waar je jezelf mag zijn

Atoms by Ana Olgica

ANCORA IMPARO 

I'm still learning

- Michelangelo - 

In a society

 

 

 that profits from your self doubt,

 

 

 liking yourself 

 

 

is a rebellious act.

 

 

- Unknown -

WALK with COMPASSION

My happiness 

is my responsability.

We are constantly pulled outside ourselves—by other people, by the media, by the demands of daily life. Nothing in our culture or in our education teaches us how to go inward, how to steady the mind and calm our attention. As a consequence, we tend to devote very little time to the life of the soul, the life of the spirit

-Thomas Moore -

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

 

It is so good to celebrate the beautiful and good moments, but seems equally essential to share about the less proud ones, too. 

 

It would be so amazing to ask those around us, “Did you fail this week? Yep, me too. Let’s talk about it.”

- Johnna Holmgren -

The most beautiful discovery true friends make

 is that they can grow separately

 without growing apart.

- Elisabeth Foley -

I have no control over what people think of me

 but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

- Beth Ditto -

 

 

 

The most difficult times for many of us

 

 are the ones we give ourselves.

 

- Pema Chodron -

Some of your best teachers 

come disguised as friends and family.