The words that flutter from your mind

I do not care what care you drive. Where you live. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone. If your clothes are this year's cutting edge. If your trust fund is unlimited. If you are A-list B-list or never heard of you list. I only care about the words that flutter from your mind. They are the only thing you truly own. The only thing I will remember you by. I will not fall in love with your bones and skin. I will not fall in love with the places you have been. I will not fall in love with anything but the words that flutter from you extraordinary mind.

- Unknown



Vrienden zijn als bomen

Vrienden zijn als bomen,
ze wachten tot je nog eens langs komt en ze zijn onverstoorbaar als je wegblijft.
Ook na maanden afwezigheid kan je de draad weer opnemen,
omdat ondertussen niets werd afgebroken.

Vrienden zijn als bomen,
op een goede afstand van elkaar geplant.
Zo moeten ze elkaar niets betwisten,
ze kennen ook geen afgunst,
maar nodigen elkaar uit om hoger te groeien.

Vrienden zijn als bomen
en bomen buigen niet, maar wuiven.

- Eugeen Laridon



You are beautiful for the volume of the soul it carries.

You are not your bra-size, nor are you the width of your waist, nor are you the slenderness of your calves. You are not your hair color, your skin color, nor are you a shade of lipstick. Your shoe-size is of no consequence. You are not defined by the amount of attention you get from males, females, or any combination thereof. You are not the number of sit-ups you can do, nor are you the number of calories in a day. You are not your mustache. You are not the hair on your legs. You are not a little red dress.

You are no amalgam of these things.

You are the content of your character. You are the ambitions that drive you. You are the goals that you set. You are the things that you laugh at and the words you say. You are the thoughts you think and the things you wonder. You are beautiful and desirable not for the clique you attend, but for the spark of life within you that compels you to make your life a full and meaningful one.

You are beautiful not for the shape of the vessel, but for the volume of the soul it carries.

- Unknown

The quiet before the storm

While running in the countryside, I attended a beautiful concert. The crickets started chirping loudly - to some annoyance, but to me, music. The birds sang and the wind was blowing through the fields.

Suddenly the crickets stopped chirping, the birds stopped singing and the wind stopped blowing. The sky turned grey. Dark grey.

All I heared was my respiration, my running pace and some rumbling noises.

The quiet before the storm.

Tranquillity. Everything seemed at ease, the fields, the flowers, the sky and me - the runner. I smiled.

Life is full of beauty, notice it.

S.R.P.

Beautiful people do not just happen

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.


Beautiful people do not just happen.

- Elizabeth Kubler Ros

We are the captains of our soul

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful and beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson, 1992

Life isn't about keeping score

It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which girl or guy likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are.

Life isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it's about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.

These choices are what life is about...

- Unknown