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)