The circus stays, only the clowns change.
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are (Rabbi Shemuel)
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind (Mahatma Ghandi)
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses (Henry Ford)
Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one — Confucius.
Success is 1 percent inspiration, 98 percent perspiration and 2 percent attention to detail.
Life is faith-all (unknown)
Intelligence is about understanding the world, communication is about being understood by the world (Leta, AI GPT-3)
If we say death is the absence of experience, then death does not exists (Deepak Chopra)
Life has so many levels of enormous complexity and meanwhile (simultaneously) incredible simplicity, that it totally bankrupts language.
Time is a human construct, a subjective matter and a fully fictitious thing. Look at "a minute". Objectively it's 60 seconds, but how long it actually is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on (Unknown)
Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize the thing that should not exist (E. Musk)
What you are looking for is what is looking. Asisi
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
Rumi
You can't desire to be free of desires, since that's a desire. Neither try to be still, because the very effort is movement.
Be the stillness and know.
Mushrooms do not know they are illegal.
"We think we are human beings having a spiritual experience but in reality we are spiritual beings having a human experience” (Swami Survapriyananda)
There is no objective world out there (Power of now, E. Tolle).
Filosofie is autobiografie. Nietzsche
Iedereen wilt oud worden, maar niemand wilt oud zijn.
Zelfmoord, dat is het laatste wat ik ooit zou doen.
Realiteit is een verzinsel van fantasieloze mensen (Peter Akroyd)
When there is no way out, there is always a way through.
There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other. E.Tolle
A scar is a tattoo with a better story.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, just keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Don't look back. You are not going that way.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski
Luck is an attitude
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Paulo Coelho
Welke dag is het vandaag vroeg Poeh. Het is vandaag, piepte Knorretje. Mijn lievelingsdag zei Poe. A.A. Milne
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Nelson Mandela
Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley
Love the things you do. Do the things you love.
Kies je beminde en bemin je keuze.
Impossible is just an opinion. Paulo Coelho
Life = atoms and molecules conspiring together to manifest themselves a temporary as a person (Tolle)
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. Jerzy Gregorek
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life. -John Lennon
A ship is always safe at shore but that's not where it's build for.
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.
If you can't help worrying, remember that worrying can't help you.
If you can't make if, fake it. Then fake it until you make it.
The difficult part of getting older is not age, but being young.
Good times are over when you think "well, how
good is it?"
Bezittingen bezitten jou.
Creativity explained: point your finger to the moon, a kid will stare at it, a dog will look at your finger and wonder what's wrong with you.
Creativity: playing WITH the rules, not BY them.
Het onbewuste leven is het niet waard om geleefd te worden (Socrates).
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.
Als er geen illusie was, was er ook geen verlichting (Boedhisme)
De dood betekent dat alles van je wordt afgenomen dat je niet bent. Het geheim van het leven is "te sterven voor je dood".
(E. Tolle)
'It's not who you are that keep's you back, it's who you think you're not.'
'Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending'
'A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks'
'Borrow money from a pessimist and lend it to an optimist. The pessimist doesn t expect it back, the optimist will double it'
'Great people aren't great because of their skills, they are great because of their passion'
'Volunteers are not paid - not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.'
'If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you.'
'A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.'
'Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions.'
Je mag de waarheid niet verwarren met de mening van de meerderheid. Loesje
You might fail doing something you hate so you might as well fail doing something you love.
Politics are like dancing: two steps forward, one backward and then a step aside.
'Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.'
'Success comes in cans, failure in cants.'
'Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticise them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.'
The man who chases two rabbits, catches none (Roman proverb).
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha
Vrienden zijn die mensen die vragen hoe het met je gaat en wachten op een antwoord.
Best things in life aren t things.
"If nothing what you do will do, then what will you do? Hisamatsu Shin'ichi (1889-1980)
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
Life happens to you while your busy making other plans.
John Lennon
Mijn onmacht woont in woorden.Stef Bos
Reculer pour mieux sauter.
Het kost evenveel moeite iets goed te doen als het slecht te doen, alleen extra opkuiswerk bij de 2de optie.
The world IS what you think it is. So think of it differently and it will change.Paul Arden
The excitement of life is "not knowing". The excitement of a game is not "knowing who will win", but the game itself. The excitment of a trip is not the arrival but the travel.Unknown
Je vroeg "ben je veranderd", het antwoord is neen. Maar om me heen doet iedereen vreemd. Fran Boeijen, 1 miljoen sterren
Most people are reasonable, that s why they only do reasonably well.Whatever you think, Think different
You can t afford the car of your dreams? That s why it is the car ofyour dreams.Whatever you think, Think different
It's very strange when the life you never had, flashes before your eyes. Terr Minsky, The Baby Shower, 1998
You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.-- Sara B. Cooper, House, Damned If You Do, 2004
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.-- Henry L. Stimson
Only idiots never change their minds.
Jacques Brel
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Vriendschap is één ziel in twee lichamen. (Aristoteles)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous (A. Einstein ).
Een vreemde is een vriend die je nog niet ontmoet hebt.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people, they're just acquaintances.Jay Leno
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Change is the only constant.
Toen ik afscheid wou nemen van God was hij niet thuis.Stef Bos
Het is moeilijker te verdwalen als je niet weet waar je naartoe gaat.
Charme is de kunst om een "ja" te krijgen zonder de vraag te hoeven stellen.Albert Camus
Wees nooit bang voor kritiek van je tegenstrevers, maar hoed je voor hun appluas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Een begin verdwijnt nooit, zelfs niet mett het einde.Harry Mulisch
De dwaas vergeeft of vergeet niets. De naïeve vergeeft en vergeet alles. De wijze vergeeft alles maar vergeet niets.Thomas Szasz
Middelbare leeftijd: wanneer je leeftijd zichtbaar wordt rond je middel.
"Leven" is het meervoud van "lef".
Wees jezelf, anderen lopen er al genoeg rond.
I am as old as my dissapointments, as young as my wildes dreams.
Je moet niet tegen iets zijn maar voor iets.
The eyes are the window to the soul.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.William Van Horne
When is the last time you did something for the first time?
Als ik doodga, maak je me dan wakker?
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang--
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.Cullen Hightower
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.Bertha Calloway
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.Thich Nhat Hanh
The secret of being boring is to say everything.Voltaire
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.Steve Jobs
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Proverb
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
People who are angry, see anger, people who are happy, see happiness.
You can find or see outside, what there is inside of you.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
The way we see the problem is the problem.Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
Door een gebrek aan aandacht, wijs je het leven af.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. John Stuart Mill
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. -- Dorothee Solle
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05Er bestaan geen andere waarheden dan diegene waarin men zelf gelooft.
Guy Verhofstad
Ook nog van Guy: Vooruitgaan ih leven is zijn fouten durven erkennen.It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally KemptonWhen we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
Gotama Buddha
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. KaiserHealth is not simply the absence of sickness.
Hannah Green
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. Unknown
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Wie met modder gooit verliest terrein.
"Een pessimist ziet een probleem in elke opportuniteit. Een optimist een opportuniteit in elk probleem."Winston Churchill
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.Anonymous
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.Leo Buscaglia
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English Proverb
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.Kurt Lewin
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.Wayne Gretzky
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.Og Mandino
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.Johnny Carson
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.Josh Billings
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.Benjamin Franklin
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.Noah Porter
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. Unknown
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.Albert Schweitzer
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.Katherine Anne Porter
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.Evan Esar
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.-- Charles Dudley Warner, 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.Jewish Proverb
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.-- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.Martin Fraquhar Tupper
You create your opportunities by asking for them.Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.Ellen DeGeneres
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
You always pass failure on the way to success.-- Mickey Rooney
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.Anonymous
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.Margaret Lee Runbeck
Tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday is history, today is a gift ... it is called present.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb
Underpromise, overdeliver.
Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
If you don't live you might be better of dead ....
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.Claude Swanson
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.Alexander Humboldt
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.Bible, Old Testament
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and Wisdom.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.Eleanor Roosevelt
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of a worried face.Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.Jewish Proverb
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.Benjamin Franklin
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Almost everything -all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.Steve Jobs
All appears to change when we change.Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, October 2002
The pleasure of love is in loving.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should every night call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
Live forever or die in the attempt.Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999
We take risks not to escape life but to prevent that live escapes us.
Those who do not plan for the future have to live through it anyway.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory. (Gary Numan)
They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
Death is more universal than life, everyone dies but not everyone lives. A. Sachs
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself, if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. Gladys Bronwyn Stern
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa
The voices in my head are trying to ignore me. But if I keep talking, I can drive them insane.A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith, sees your anxieties but frees your spirit, recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. Swedish Proverb
You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.
Prijzen worden aan de finish uitgedeeld.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
We have a strange and wonderful relationship: He's strange and I'm wonderfulMike Ditka, on Jim McMahon
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more... doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Albert Guerard
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox, quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Frank A. Clark
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
Life is shaped by the people you meet every day.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"Herinner gisteren, Droom morgen,Leef vandaag"
One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. Etty Hillesum
What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna, 1912
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
When money talks, talent walks.Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser, 1590
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. Sir Henry Taylor
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.Austin Phelps
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Underpromise, overdeliver.Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.Eric HofferWhat makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.Andre Agassi, on "Charlie Rose"
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle'
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.John F. Kennedy
De beste dagen van je leven zijn de dagen die nog moeten komen.
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit ... yourself.Audrey Giorgi
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.Mother Teresa
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.Denis Watley
Treat the other man's faith gently. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.Henry S. Haskins
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.Sylvia Robinson
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.Robert Heinlein
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Mensen die de zon in andermans leven brengen, voelen ook haar warmte.
The best armor is to keep out of range.Italian Proverb
Als je begrepen wilt worden, zeg dan precies wat je bedoelt.
Durven is even de grond onder je voeten verliezen. Niet durven is je leven verliezen.
Om te kunnen bestaan moeten we verdienen, maar om te kunnen leven moeten we geven.
Eenvoud is weten wanneer minder te weinig, en meer te veel wordt.Probeer, elke keer als je tegen de lamp loopt, een beetje licht mee te nemen.
Wie zich niet ergert, maar zich verwondert, die wordt geen tachtig maar die wordt honderd.
Door het poortje waardoor de achterdocht binnenkomt, gaat de liefde heen.
Wees niet bang dat je leven eindigt, vrees dat het nooit begint. Tevredenheid is weelde in topvorm.
In Gods winkel ligt alles op de onderste plank,je moet knielen om het te krijgen.
Met familie moet je wandelen, niet handelen.
Wijsheid is de beloning voor een leven lang te luisteren. Neem rustig de tijd om gelukkig te zijn,tijd zou geen snelweg mogen zijn tussen wieg en grafmaar een "Wizard-of-Oz-paadje" in de zon.
Als God ons over rotsachtige wegen laat gaanzorgt Hij voor stevige schoenen.
Een westerling heeft een horloge een oosterling de tijd.
Pluk de dag vooraleer je zelf geplukt wordt.
'n Vriend is: "Iemand die tijdens je leven tegen je zegt, wat anderen na je dood vertellen".
Er schuilt gevaar in alles wat je doet, maar niets doen is gevaarlijker.
Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.Vernon Howard
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison, Harper's Monthly, 1932
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. Gore Vida
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West, Klondike Annie (1936 film)
Laughter is an instant vacation.Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)I drink to make other people seem more interesting.George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
-- Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks (1926 - )
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli
Definitie van waanzin: telkens opnieuw hetzelfde proberen en denken dat de uitkomst verschillend zal zijn.
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -- Robert Service
Moet de muziek zo hard ... omdat de innerlijke stilte zo oorverdovend is?
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. Steve Jobs (Apple)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. Charlie Chaplin, O Magazine, October 2002
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Seneca
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Het is tijd om los te laten wat je hebt, dan heb je niets te verliezen. Stef Bos
... en ik dacht: als nu de wereld eens vergaat, is er niemand die het in de gaten heeftwant ze zitten aan de beeldbuis vastgekleefd. De televisie staat nog aan maar de wereld is vergaan.--Herman Van Veen
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.David Starr Jordan
Applause may fade, real friendship resounds forever.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart ...
To handle yourself, use your head, to handle others, use your heart.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Buonarroti
It is not enough to aim, you must hit. Italian Proverb
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Benjamin Franklin
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.Charles F. Kettering
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
What you are is a question only you can answer.
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
"Niets wat we ons ooit hebben voorgesteld ligt buiten onze macht, het ligt slechts voorbij onze huidige zelfkennis." (Theodore Roszak)
Alle macht ligt in de huidige zelfkennis, alleen ontbreekt het aan perceptie ... alle antwoorden zijn er, de uitdaging is jezelf de juiste vragen stellen ... en het mooie is nu net dat anderen je daar 'n handje kunnen bij helpen. Anonymous
Zelfkennis is het begin van alle wijsheid, wijsheid het eind van alle ijdelheid.
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience. (Shakti Gawain)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
If you don't know to which port you are sailing, no wind is favourable.
Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have.
Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I might remember. Involve me and I will understand.(Chinese proverb)
Voor sommige godsdiensten is het makkelijker om ervoor te sterven dan ernaar te leven ....
The limits of your life are the limits of your imagination.
Dear Jesus, Please help Mommy and Daddy. Take care of Brother and Me. And please God, take care of yourself cause if anything happens to you we are in big trouble.Amen
The only way to make a dream come true is to wake up and live it.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking
You don’t have to make the same mistakes time and time again, there is plenty of choice
"Normal" is just a setting on a washing machine
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Freya Madeline Stark
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures, but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.Mark TwainIf you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have to impress people who don't care ...There are 2 things certain in life: there is a God and I am not him ...
When your life flashes before you, make sure its worth watching (Johnnie Walker)
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves(Carl Gustav Jung)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakesThose who race through life finish first (Darrel Hunsbedt)
If you're looking for a rainbow, you know there will be some rain
I have no problem keeping secrets. It's the people I tell...
Never run from your fears. Because when they catch up to you you're too tired to fight.
"What are you doing?" a man asked of three laborers beside a building under construction. The first man replied, "Stone-cuttin."The second smiled, "Putting in time until a better job comes along." The third man waited a moment and then said simply, "I m building a cathedral."
Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. (Chinese proverb)
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy, if you lose, you will be wise.
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
Never fear shadows... they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish proverb)
Two men looked out of prison bars. One saw mud and the other saw stars.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital TV is a pretty neat idea...
There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bazaarly inexplicable." There is another theory that states: "This has already happened...."
This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small white pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small white pieces of paper that were unhappy.
All my life I said I wanted to be someone... I can see now that I should have been more specific.
Life is wasted on the living.- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
In the beginning I was made. I didn't ask to be made. No one consulted me or considered my feelings in this matter. But if it brought some passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way through life's mournful jungle then so be it.- Marvin the Paranoid Android
To be, or what?- Sylvester Stallone
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either. - Joseph Fischer
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. - Douglas Adam
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Blind men don't bungi jump, it scares the dog too much.
Humor is the shortest distance between two people - Henry Youngman
The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed. - Geoffrey Gorer
"It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one stop digging. " Denis Healey
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. (Anonymous)
If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better. (Karl Marx's mother)
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me (Ambrose Bierce)
I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress. (Jane Siberry)
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?!"
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: My Reality Check bounced.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
Dilbert's Words of Wisdom: Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Red meat isn't bad for you. Fuzzy green meat is.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown
Ford Prefect: We're safe. Arthur Dent: Ah. Good. Ford Prefect: We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur Dent: Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "safe" that I haven't previously been aware of.
Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Ford Prefect: Why? What did she tell you? Arthur Dent: I don't know. I didn't listen.
Announcer: Men were real men. Women were real women. And small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were *real* small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Marvin: It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Zaphod Beeblebrox: Hey, Ford! How many escape capsules are there? Ford Prefect: None. Zaphod Beeblebrox: You counted them? Ford Prefect: Twice.
"Life without you would be like a broken pencil." "How's that?" "Completely pointless." (Blackadder, Series II)
98% of all statistics are made up. (Anonymous)
I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, terrified, like his passengers.
10 out of 5 doctors think it's OK to be schizofrenic.
2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme But not this
Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets anyways?
There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't.
De wetenschap heeft onze godsdients vervangen ... maar de wetenschap is niet heilig ... ze is geen "opium voor het volk". Leven is liefhebben, vertrouwen, niet "weten"