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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spreuken en wijsheden januari 2013

• Wie geen vertrouwen in anderen stelt, zal ook nimmer het vertrouwen van anderen winnen. (Lao Tzu)
• Optimisme is het vertrouwen dat tot prestatie leidt. Zonder hoop en zelfvertrouwen kan niets tot stand komen. (Helen Keller)
• Er zijn verschillende waarheden: mijn waarheid, jouw waarheid en de waarheid. (Chinese wijsheid)
• Wij weten nooit de waarde van water totdat de bron droog komt te staan. (Engelse gezegde)
• Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
• Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think (Albert Einstein)
• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. (Aldous Huxley)

Spreuken en wijsheden december 2012

• The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (anoniem)
• Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. (Bill Nye)
• And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Niezsche)
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)
• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

spreuken en wijsheden november 2012

• Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. (Ellen Goodman)
• There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)
• I will fill myself with love and share it with the world, how others treat me is their Karma, their path, how I respond is mine. (unknown)
• People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. (1997 ad from Apple)
• There is no key to happiness, the door is always open. (Marc Gohres)
• Als je de manier verandert waarop je naar de dingen kijkt, veranderen de dingen waarnaar je kijkt. (Wayne Dyer)
• If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm (Bruce Baerton)
• Jacht wordt pas een sport als dieren terug kunnen schieten. (Connie Brouwer)
• An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. (Bonnier Friedman)
• Luck is believing you're lucky (Tenessee Williams) 
• Angst is de belangrijkste bron van bijgeloof en één van de belangrijkste bronnen van wreedheid. Angst overwinnen is het begin van wijsheid. (Bertrand Russell) 
• Het probleem van deze wereld is dat fanatici rotsvast overtuigd zijn van hun gelijk, terwijl wijze mensen vol twijfels zitten. (onbekend)
• Een van de belangrijkste dingen bij communicatie is te horen wat er niet wordt gezegd (Peter Drucker)
• We weten nooit de waarde van water totdat de bron droog komt te staan (Engels gezegde)
• An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you… (onbekend)
• When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills (Chinese proverb)

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• One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson
  about a battle that goes on inside people.
  
  He said, "My son, the battle is between
  two "wolves" inside us all.
  
  One is Evil.
  It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed,
  arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
  false pride, superiority, and ego.
  
  The other is Good.
  It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
  
  The grandson thought about it for a minute
  and then asked his grandfather:
  "Which wolf wins?"
  
  The old Cherokee simply replied,
  "The one you feed."
  
  (A Native American Metaphor)