Quotes
Hieronder verzamel ik enkele quotes die me leiden in mijn werk en filosofie. Zoals mijn leven evolueert, zo zullen ook de inzichten en spreuken op deze pagina mee evolueren
Mijn 3 levensmotto's zijn:
Mijn 3 levensmotto's zijn:
- Practice what you preach - naar de spreuk 'Verba rebus proba' ('Bewijs woorden met daden') van de stoïcijn Seneca.
- Gnothi seauton ('Ken jezelf') een inscriptie aan de tempel van Delphi uit het oude Griekenland
- Geef me de kalmte om te aanvaarden waaraan ik niets kan veranderen, de moed om de dingen te veranderen die ik kan veranderen, en de wijsheid om het verschil tussen beide te zien. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Over wijsheid, inzichten & betekenis in het leven
Wisdom begins in wonder
- Socrates
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates
We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives.
- George Dyson
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
— Albert Einstein
Within and without there is so much I do not know because of all the facts.
Within and without there is so much I shall never know because of all the fate.
Within and without there is so much I refuse to see because of all of my foolishness.
- John Vervaeke
When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.
- Hector Garcia
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
- Viktor Frankl
Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing what you love while being surrounded by the people who love you.
- Hector Garcia
- Socrates
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates
We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives.
- George Dyson
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
— Albert Einstein
Within and without there is so much I do not know because of all the facts.
Within and without there is so much I shall never know because of all the fate.
Within and without there is so much I refuse to see because of all of my foolishness.
- John Vervaeke
When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.
- Hector Garcia
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
- Viktor Frankl
Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing what you love while being surrounded by the people who love you.
- Hector Garcia
Over Onze relatie met de natuur
Nature never left. We did.
- Einar Selvik
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.
- Eckhart Tolle
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
- old Indian proverb
The environment is not separate from ouselves; we are inside it, and it is inside us; we make it and it makes us.
- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
A man is like a forest; individual and yet connected and dependent on others for growth.
- Ken Mogi
The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.
- Magic the Gathering, Fertile Ground
- Einar Selvik
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.
- Eckhart Tolle
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
- old Indian proverb
The environment is not separate from ouselves; we are inside it, and it is inside us; we make it and it makes us.
- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
A man is like a forest; individual and yet connected and dependent on others for growth.
- Ken Mogi
The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.
- Magic the Gathering, Fertile Ground
Over verandering
You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- TS Eliot
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced
- James Baldwin
It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
We don't stop playing cause we grow old, we grow old cause we stop playing
- George Bernard Shaw
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are at
- Theodore Roosevelt
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
- Joseph Campbell
If the purpose of a company is merely growth, it is not different from a tumor.
- unknown
Personal development is like a pencil that is being sharpened. At a certain moment you're sharp and you think "I'm through it". However, after writing for a while you need sharpening again. Don't expect to be as sharp all the time.
- unknown
Patience is not waiting, but choosing to appreciate what's happening instead of longing only for what's coming
- unknown
Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
- Keith Johnstone
Change is the essence of life…be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Chuang Tzu
I would love to live
Like a river flows
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
- John O’Donohue
Diamonds are formed under pressure and bread dough rises when it rests. We're all are own things. What's motivating to you may be crippling to others.
- unknown
- Buckminster Fuller
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- TS Eliot
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself
- Anna Quindlen
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced
- James Baldwin
It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
We don't stop playing cause we grow old, we grow old cause we stop playing
- George Bernard Shaw
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are at
- Theodore Roosevelt
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
- Joseph Campbell
If the purpose of a company is merely growth, it is not different from a tumor.
- unknown
Personal development is like a pencil that is being sharpened. At a certain moment you're sharp and you think "I'm through it". However, after writing for a while you need sharpening again. Don't expect to be as sharp all the time.
- unknown
Patience is not waiting, but choosing to appreciate what's happening instead of longing only for what's coming
- unknown
Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
- Keith Johnstone
Change is the essence of life…be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Chuang Tzu
I would love to live
Like a river flows
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
- John O’Donohue
Diamonds are formed under pressure and bread dough rises when it rests. We're all are own things. What's motivating to you may be crippling to others.
- unknown
Over Gezondheid, beweging, Voeding
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- Alexander Pope
I'm not a broken version of you, I'm a functioning version of me.
- Mark Walsh
Self-care is essential fuel, not a reward.
- Michelle Segar
The hero's journey of the modern age is prioritizing feeling, learning and self-care over escapism and addiction
- Mark Walsh
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
- Dalai Lama
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned,
as though they were three characters finally in conversation together,
three notes suddenly making a chord.
- Rebecca Solnit
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation. And that is an act of political warfare
- Audre Lorde
Exercise can be a free expression of one's being in the world, or it can represent an adaptation to a social environment that defines personal worth in terms of physical fitness
- Fahlberg
Our illusions regarding the body...that it behaves essentially like a machine...have paved the way for the loss of meaning in health and ilness
- Larry Dossey
There is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them.
- Hector Garcia
L'appétit vient en mangeant.
- Rabelais
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
- Alexander Pope
I'm not a broken version of you, I'm a functioning version of me.
- Mark Walsh
Self-care is essential fuel, not a reward.
- Michelle Segar
The hero's journey of the modern age is prioritizing feeling, learning and self-care over escapism and addiction
- Mark Walsh
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
- Dalai Lama
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned,
as though they were three characters finally in conversation together,
three notes suddenly making a chord.
- Rebecca Solnit
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation. And that is an act of political warfare
- Audre Lorde
Exercise can be a free expression of one's being in the world, or it can represent an adaptation to a social environment that defines personal worth in terms of physical fitness
- Fahlberg
Our illusions regarding the body...that it behaves essentially like a machine...have paved the way for the loss of meaning in health and ilness
- Larry Dossey
There is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them.
- Hector Garcia
L'appétit vient en mangeant.
- Rabelais
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
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