Only by finding our own greatness can we hold others in theirs

The heart earns only to be that which it seeks

There is depth in stillness

There is no greater freedom than absolute love of self

they can be everything, nothing, here and then gone

One moment, , loving someone makes you shine

the next it feels like matter and antimatter colliding

The glory of loving a person over many years

is learning his or her individual phases - and blending together

watching who you both become.

Judith Orloff

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it

He who will not economize will have to agonize

Be not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without the moon and stars

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you don't stop

Man's natures are alike, it's their habits that carry them far apart

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do

When anger rises, think of the consequences

When we see humans of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves

Where ever you go, go with all your heart

Forget injuries, never forget kindness

The superior human, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin.

When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come.

Thus his person is not endangered, and his states and all their clans are preserved.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it's the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a human training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he/she learns thoroughly.

hoe zou je dan liefst de rest van je tijd doorbrengen?

Doe dat dan

Rene Diekstra

Je zult weer heel worden, maar nooit meer dezelfde zijn.

Elisabet Kübler-Ross

Mijn werken door de week, mijn zondagstroost

Mijn dag mijn nacht mijn gesprek mijn lied

Voor altijd dacht ik

Maar zo was het niet

W.H.Auden

I have only slipped away into the next room

I am I, and you are you

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are

Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used

Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together

Play, smile, think of me

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was

Let it be spoken without effort, without the trace of a shadow on it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland 

presume not God to scan

the proper study of mankind is man

Alexander Pope

ik ga niet van verdriet

allen die dat denken

die kennen me eigenlijk niet

ik ga omdat ik geven moet

dit is geen laffe uitweg

het vergt verdomd veel moed

ik sta in de weg hier

mijn taak zit er hier op

alleen die allerlaatste

moest er nog bovenop

ik ben niet ongelukkig

ik voel me niet eens slecht

ik heb geleerd dat je't altijd krijgt

als je'r maar voor vecht

alleen is het niet eerlijk

dat ik vastklamp aan iets wat niet van mij is

dat ik doe alsof er geen andere weg is

geen hart dat bij het mijne past

een sprookje , weer door An bedacht

en ik haat egoisme

dus ik laat los

en ik maak vrij

alles wat lief is

is niet van mij

grote illusie die ik zelf had gebouwd

alles wat mooi was maakte ik vertrouwd

...

This is not what I intended,

I always swore to you I'd never fall apart,

You always thought that I was stronger

I may have failed but I have loved you from the start

Father into your hands, I commit my spirit, father into your hands, why have you forsaken me? Trust in my, self-righteous suicide, I cry, when angels deserve to die...