Quotes 2024
“Too much knowledge kills the imagination.” – Anton Koolhaas (1912-1992) – Sunday November 17, 2024
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” – Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) – Sunday November 10, 2024
“Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.” – Eckhart Tolle (1948) – Sunday November 3, 2024
“You need someone, quiet and sincere. Who, when it comes down to it, prays for you or fights for you. Only when you have someone who laughs with you and cries with you, then you can say: I have a friend.” (Poem in Dutch) – Toon Hermans (1916-2000) – Sunday October 27, 2024
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins (1960) – Sunday October 20, 2024
“When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid. The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” – Amanda Gorman (1998) – Sunday October 13, 2024
“Something does not necessarily have to be beautiful to have beauty”. – Jeffrey T. Larson (1962) – Sunday October 6, 2024
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross (1942-1995) – Sunday September 29, 2024
“Gratitude is a flower that blooms in few gardens.” – Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) – Sunday September 22, 2024
“The world is more beautiful with you.” – Loesje (1983) – Sunday September 15, 2024
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) – Sunday September 8, 2024
“As growth rings lie silent in the tree until liberated by the axe, they sing out in uprooted time.” – J. Bernlef (1937-2012) – Sunday September 1, 2024
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) – Sunday August 25, 2024
“Every disadvantage has its advantage.” – Johan Cruijff (1947-2016) – Sunday August 18, 2024
“I’m only 90, so I still have plenty of time.” – Klaas Gubbels (1934) – Sunday August 11, 2024
“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.” – Ian McEwan (1948) – Sunday August 4, 2024
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) – Sunday July 28, 2024
“Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) – Sunday July 21, 2024
“Within our darkest night, you kindle the fire that never dies away, that never dies away.” – Jacques Berthier (1923-1994) / Taizé – Sunday July 14, 2024
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker (1944) – Sunday July 7, 2024
“The most important condition for happiness is that you want to be what you are.” – Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) – Sunday June 30, 2024
“But the undercurrent, which no one sees, determines the direction, in every area.” – Stef Bos (1961) – Sunday June 23, 2024
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” – Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) – Sunday June 16, 2024
‘The declaration of the Tie’: “Tie wearers of all nations unite: cast off the rope that binds you! Risk your neck! Liberate yourself and venture into open collar paradise!” – Prince Claus (1926-2002) – Sunday June 9, 2024
“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.” – Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) – Sunday June 2, 2024
“But if you look closely, everything in life has a rhythm: nature, but also ourselves.” – Sister Guerric (1979) / Koningsoord Abbey – Sunday May 26, 2024
“Amidst all the deterioration of human relationships, goodness endures. It remains possible, even if it can never become a system or social regime. Every attempt to completely organize the human condition is doomed to failure. The only thing that remains alive is the small goodness of everyday life. She is fragile and provisional. It is a goodness without witnesses, performed in silence, modestly, without triumph. It is gratuitous and therefore eternal. They are ordinary people, ‘simple souls’, who defend her and ensure that she continues to recover, even though she is completely defenseless against the forces of evil. The little goodness crawls up, like a crushed blade of grass rises again. She may be ‘crazy’, a ‘mad goodness’, but she is at the same time the most human thing in people. She never wins, but she is never conquered!” – Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) – Sunday May 19, 2024
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant an apple tree today.” – Maarten Luther (1483-1546) – Sunday May 12, 2024
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop (620 BC – 564 BC) – Sunday May 5, 2024
“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.” – Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) – Sunday April 28, 2024
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – Sunday April 21, 2024
“Only when the last tree has died, the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realize that money cannot be eaten.” – Cree Indian proverb – Sunday April 14, 2024
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) – Sunday April 7, 2024
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” – T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) – Sunday March 31, 2024
“Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.” | “A bird as rare upon the earth, as a black swan.” – Juvenal (60-133/140) – Sunday March 24, 2024
“Daar in dat kleine café aan de haven, daar zijn de mensen gelijk en tevree. Daar in dat kleine café aan de haven, daar telt je geld of wie je bent niet meer mee.” (only in Dutch) – Pierre Kartner (1935-2022) – Sunday March 17, 2024
“Remember, your words can plant gardens or burn whole forests down.” – Gemma Troy – Sunday March 10, 2024
“I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.” – Groucho Marx (1890-1977) – Sunday March 3, 2024
“Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. We just have to notice them.” – Roald Dahl (1916-1990) – Sunday February 25, 2024
“Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won’t have to go around search for it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022) – Sunday February 18, 2024
“Some day, we will all die, Snoopy! True, but on all the other days we will not.” – Charlie Brown and Snoopy / Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) – Sunday February 11, 2024
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank (1929-1945) – Sunday February 4, 2024
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King (1929-1968) – Sunday January 28, 2024
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” – Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) – Sunday January 21, 2024
“The silence of nature has many sounds.” – Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk (1869-1952) – Sunday January 14, 2024
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) – Sunday January 7, 2024
Total 2024: 46 quotes
Quotes 2023
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London/John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916) – Sunday December 31, 2023
“Het heeft geen nut, maar wel zin.” (only in Dutch) – Herman Finkers (1954) – Sunday December 24, 2023
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) – Sunday December 17, 2023
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney (1901-1966) – Sunday December 10, 2023
“We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.” – Judi Dench (1934) – Sunday December 3, 2023
“Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.” – Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) – Sunday November 26, 2023
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” – Stephen Covey (1932-2012) – Sunday November 19, 2023
“When they go low, we go high.” – Michelle Obama (1964) – Sunday November 12, 2023
“Everything of value is defenseless.” – Lucebert (1924-1994) – Sunday November 5, 2023
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) – Sunday October 29, 2023
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) – Sunday October 22, 2023
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”- Marcus Aurelius (121-180) – Sunday October 15, 2023
“Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.” – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – Sunday October 8, 2023
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato (427 BC-347 BC) – Sunday October 1, 2023
“Mooi menselijk is menselijk mooi, omdat mensen mooi zijn.” (only in Dutch) – Peer Ulijn (1959) – Sunday September 24, 2023
“De belangrijkste verantwoordelijkheid ligt aan de basis. Kijk niet voor de oplossing van elk probleem naar boven maar kom in eigen kring en op je eigen niveau met creatieve antwoorden.” (only in Dutch) – Frans Wiertz (1942) – Sunday September 17, 2023
“Happiness can be found in the smallest of things. It is our passion to turn everyday routines into more meaningful moments.” – Rituals (2000) – Sunday September 10, 2023
“Ik ben er zeker van dat er heel veel meer dimensies bestaan dan wij kunnen bevatten. En vanuit dat oneindig bewustzijn houden we contact.” (only in Dutch) – R.W. Welschen (1941-2013) – Sunday September 3, 2023
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.” – Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) – Sunday August 27, 2023
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.” – Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) – Sunday August 20, 2023
“Trifles make the sum of life.” – Charles Dickens (1812-1870) – Sunday August 13, 2023
“Everyone is an alien somewhere.” – Coldplay / Chris Martin (1977) – Sunday August 6, 2023
“De dingen in het leven zijn niet altijd groot. Wij zijn kleine, heel kleine menschen; wij zijn kleine, heel kleine zielen, en de dingen van het leven, ons leven, zijn meestal klein, heel klein en heel onbeduidend. Maar door ál die kleine dingen schemeren de groote dingen. De goote dingen, die toch ook heerschen over onze kleine levens en zij zijn de Schoonheid, de Poëzie en de Vriendschap, de Liefde…” (only in Dutch) – Louis Couperus (1863-1923) – Sunday July 30, 2023
“No one is too small to make a difference.” – Greta Thunberg (2003) – Sunday July 23, 2023
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven, don’t want to die to get there. And yet, Death is the destination we all share. No-one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is most likely the single best invention of Life. It’s Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is You… but someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs (1955-2011) – Sunday July 16, 2023
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) – Sunday July 9, 2023
“No journey is impossible. You just need to take a step forward.” – Lucinda Riley (1965-2021) – Sunday July 2, 2023
“Ik sta even stil en dat is een hele vooruitgang.” (only in Dutch) – Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) – Sunday June 25, 2023
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Paulo Coelho (1947) – Sunday June 18, 2023
“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing (1912-1954) – Sunday June 11, 2023
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin (1809-1882) – Friday June 2, 2023
“Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.” – Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) -Sunday May 28, 2023
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) – Sunday May 21, 2023
Total 2023: 33 quotes
Total 2023-2024: 79 quotes
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