Spreuken en wijsheden november 2013

• Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from the soul (Anthony Douglas Williams)

Spreuken en wijsheden oktober 2013

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. (Marie Curie)

Spreuken en wijsheden september 2013

• Be brave, take risks. Nothing can subsitute experience. (Paulo Coelho)

Spreuken en wijsheden augustus 2013

• We're all just walking each other home (Ram Das)

Spreuken en wijsheden juli 2013

• The first to apologize is the bravest.
  The first to forgive is the strongest
  And the first to forget is the happiest...
• Let go or be dragged. (Zen proverb)
• There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. (Don Miguel Ruiz)
• Whoever fights monsters should see tot it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but is is fear. (Gandhi)
• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. (John Lennon)
• Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies in what you think (Buddha)
• All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Escucha sin juzgar
  Habla sin odender
  Observa sin despreciar (onbekend)
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato)
• There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you're the one that will change theirs. (onbekend)
• Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter has in store for you (onbekend)
• Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy and men are stupid.
  And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. (George Carlin)
• Son tus decisiones y no tu condiciones lo que determina tu destino (onbekend)
• Le réel et le surnaturel, c'est la même chose. (Henri Barbusse)

Spreuken en wijsheden juni 2013

• Creativiteit vereist de moed om zekerheden te laten gaan. (Erich Fromm)
• In life it's not where you go - It's who you travel with. (onbekend)
• “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
  Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
  So if you love a flower, let it be.
  Love is not about possession.
  Love is about appreciation. (Osho) 
• Geluk is blijven verlangen naar wat je al hebt. (Augustinus)
• You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.(Rumi)
• Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.(Gautama Buddha)
• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society, Chomsky suggested. “When you trap people in a system of debt . they can’t afford the time to think.” Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture”. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy. (Noam Chomsky)

spreuken en wijsheden mei 2013

• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. (unknown)
• New beginnings are often desguised as painful endings ... (Lao Tzu)
• We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love … and then we return home. (Australian Aboriginal Proverb)
• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.(Irving Berlin)
• Educating the mind without educationg the heart is no education at all (Aristotle)
• The future is a concept - it doesn't exist! There is no such thing as tomorrow! There never will be because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now. (Alan Watts)
• You do not attract what you want, you attract what you are (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
• Namaste (Sanskrit): My soul recognizes your soul, I honor the light, love, beauty, truth, and kindness within you because it is also within me, in sharing these things there is no distance and no difference between us, we are the same, we are one.

spreuken en wijsheden april 2013

• Saying sorry does not always mean that you were wrong. Sometimes it means you value your relationships more than your ego. (unknown)
• Vertrouwen draagt meer bij tot de conversatie dan intelligentie (François Rochefoucauld)
• Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think (Buddha)
• “Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. (Rumi)
• Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est. (Marcel Proust)
• Als je de waarheid vertelt, hoef je niets te onthouden (Mark Twain)
• Hoe je over jezelf denkt is veel belangrijker dan hoe anderen over je denken (Seneca)
• The best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Nothing wille make you happier (George Lucas)
• “When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. (unknown)

Spreuken en wijsheden maart 2013

• Dromen is erg belangrijk. Je kunt alleen iets realiseren als je je er een voorstelling kunt van maken. (George Lucas)
• If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are loving in the present. (Lao Tzu)
• Er zijn slechts twee manieren om je leven te leven: doen alsof niets een wonder is, en doen alsof alles een wonder is. Ik geloof in het laatste. (Albert Einstein)
• When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. (Tchin Naht Hanh)
• There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you're the one that will change theirs. (onbekend)
• By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life. (Gary Zuka)
• You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
  Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
• The best teachers are those ho show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. (Alexandra K. Trenfor)
• The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. (Anthony Robbins)
• Einfach reden, aber kompliziert denken - nicht umgekehrt. (Franz Jozef Strauss)
• You are never so strong as when you forgive. (Kimberly Converse)

Spreuken en wijsheden februari 2013

• If you really think the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money (Dr. Guy McPherson)
• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road does not mean that they are lost (Dalai Lama)
• Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money (voltaire)
• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth (Marcus Aurelius)
• De aarde biedt voldoende om ieders behoefte te bevredigen maar niet ieders hebzucht (Mahatma Gandhi)
• Een van de belangrijkste dingen bij communicatie is te horen wat niet wordt gezegd (Peter Drucker)
• Waar geen visie is, lijden de mensen (Uit de bijbel: Spreuken)
• Bij wijsheid hoort het doorgronden met het intellect van wat eeuwig is; bij kennis het rationeel begrijpen van wat tijdelijk is (Augustinus)
• Je hebt dromen nodig om mentaal gezond te blijven. wie geen dromen meer koestert, moet zich zorgen maken (Peter Adriaenssens)
• Succes betekent enkel doen wat je goed kan en de rest door de anderen laten doen (Samuel Goldstein)
• Zolang we vasthouden aan onze zelf geschreven etiketten en zelfdefinities, weigeren we onszelf te behandelen als een volwaardig individu met een oneindig potentieel (Marc Gafni)

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