Read the words, give them a thought or a laugh, allow them to penetrate your heart. Words are like magic! Visit my sacred place and let the words enchant you...
07-10-2007
The Notebook
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give you forever..."
U zoudt me niet hebben herkend: een taaie bonk spier krimpend van zeer. Wat wil zo'n blok van een vent? Heel wat. En meer. Het heeft immers geen belang meer dat ik besta uit brons en mijn hart uit ijzer en kou. 's Nachts wil enkel mijn klank verloren gaan in het dons van de vrouw.
[Uit: Een wolk in broek, van: Vladimir Vladimirovitsj Majakovski]
"If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the Highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love. You see what happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance." [C.S. Lewis - Faith, Christianity and the Church]
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my person goes And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." ~Bill Vaughan
"Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits."
"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other."
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." ~Charles Lamb
"The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn." ~Hartley Coleridge
"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." ~T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." ~Mark Twain
"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."
"I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second." ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." ~Norman Vincent Peale
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"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." ~Charles Dickens
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"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." ~Mary Ellen Chase
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"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." ~W.T. Ellis
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"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!" ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
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"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby
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"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." ~Katharine Whitehorn
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"Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times." ~Kate L. Bosher
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"Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself." ~Norman W. Brooks, Let Every Day Be Christmas
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"Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!" ~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
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"Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?" ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
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"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" " ~David Grayson
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"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month." ~Harlan Miller
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"Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish." ~Benny Hill
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"At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime..." ~Edgar Guest
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"Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money."
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"[I]t is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis." ~D.D. Monroe
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"May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, The gladness of Christmas give you hope, The warmth of Christmas grant you love."
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"I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!" ~Carolyn Wells
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"Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?"
Overmorgen is God jarig, maar van mij krijgt hij niks, Kerstmis kost me zo al zat genoeg, het vlees weer duurder, verleden jaar betaalde ik voor een magere varkensrollade 70 cent per ons, nu 80, enz. enz. Een geluk is dat ik veel buiten het keukenraam kan zetten of hangen, drank, boter, vlees, vogels, etc., zodat de ijskast een beetje ontlast wordt door het bijspringen van Mother Nature's Fridge.
(Gerard Reve, Brieven van een aardappeleter, blz. 56)
Ze hebben iets heel sereens, die dagen die hun inhoud eigenlijk al heel lang hebben verloren: het geeft ze iets schimmigs, iets onnatuurlijks ook vooral. God is dood, maar de middenstand zal de Kerst tot het jaar 3000 in leven houden.
Kerstmis bij de Gebroeders Temmes Arie : En die koning heette Herodotus. Gé : Die alle kleine kinderen opat. Arie : Behalve Jezus, omdat die in dat mandje dreef. Gé : Oja, nou weet ik het weer. Met die vallende ster. Arie : En toen dat mandje met Jezus naar de Open Zee dreef toen spleet de zee in tweeën, dat Jezus niet zou ver- drinken en natworden. Gé : Maar hij had dus niets te eten. Arie : Hij at herten en runderen. En dat sliep allemaal bij el- kaar, met de lammen en de leeuwen. Dat vonden ze een eer, om door Jezus te worden opgegeten. Gé : Rauw? Arie : Nee, eerst roosterde hij ze op een brandend braambos. Gé : En als hij dan dorst had? Arie : Dan sloeg Jezus met zijn staf op een berg en dan kwam daar bier uit. Gé : Het is goed om in deze donkere dagen weer eens bij die dingen stil te staan. Arie : Precies. Daarvoor hebben ze Kerstmis ook voor ingevoerd.
In die door de zure regen aangetaste kerstbomen kun je de ballen veel beter zien hangen.
(Koot & Bie, Bescheurkalender)
Omdat een vrouw alleen maar X-chromosomen bezit, kan een maagdelijke geboorte alleen een meisje opleveren. Maagd en moeder, vooruit, maar maagd en moeder van een zoon, dat is een godswonder.
The love that once was born can not die For it has become part of us, of our life, Woven into the very texture of our being. Each of us would wish to leave some part of ourselves, So here and now we bear witness to the one we knew in life, Who now in death bequeaths a subtle part, precious and beloved, Which will be with us in truth and beauty, In dignity and courage and love To the end of our days.
Philosophy is a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Bertrand Russell
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you dont know.
Cicero
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
H.L. Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
V: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November,/ The Gunpowder Treason and Plot... / I know of no reason/ Why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...
Evey Hammond: My father was a writer. You would've liked him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
[after a hail of gunfire doesn't stop V] Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die? V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Finch: Who was he? Evey Hammond: He was Edmond Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us.
Bij gebrek aan de tekst van "Ik word nooit groot" uit dezelfde Musical, schrijf ik het refrein neer zoals ik het me herinner:
Ik word nooit groot 'k Zit liever op mijn gemak Ik lees liever de gazet als een stomme ouwe zak
'k Hoef niet naar school niet vroeg naar bed Ik leid een leven als een strandjanet dus word ik nooit groot word ik nooit groot word ik nooit gro-ot nee nooit!
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." Charles W. Eliot
There's a song that's inside of my soul It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again I'm awake in the infinite cold, But you sing to me over and over and over again
So I lay my head back down and I lift my hands and pray to be only yours I pray, to be only yours I know now, you're my only hope
Sing to me the song of the stars Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again When it feels like my dreams are so far Sing to me of the plans that you had for me over again
So I lay my head back down And I lift my hands and pray To be only yours I pray, to be only yours I know now, you're my only hope
I give you my destiny I'm giving you all of me I want your symphony, singing in all that I am At the top of lungs, I'm giving it all I have
So I lay my head back down And I lift my hands and pray to be only yours I pray, to be only yours I pray to be only yours I know now, you're my only hope
