Inspirerende quotes

[boesboes]

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair.
You are fooling yourself.
That's like expecting a lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

[boesboes]

Hoop is een groot kwaad.
Het verlengd enkel het lijden.

Friedrich nietzche

[Christa]

Even een stukje Sherlock Holmes (en Watson) - ik ben opgegroeid in een dorp in de middle of nowhere (je weet wel prachtige natuur enzo.)... en het is (nog steeds) waar!!

(Watson begint) "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?"
"They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
"You horrify me!"
"But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Sherlock Holmes in "The Copper Beeches" (Doubleday p. 323)

[Lukas]

Die Nietzche is wel een keiharde bikkel.

And Sherlock Holmes weet het geniaal schrijnend te zeggen...

[Lukas]

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.�

― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

[Christa]

Hoe komen die boedhisten toch bij ´het leven is lijden' ?


“Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and dancing sheep, and cries, ’Of course I am happy here! It’s wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!’
In its wholehearted acceptance of what is; I feel as if he had struck me in the chest.
Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow-it’s quite enough!

Have you seen the snow leopard?

No! Isn’t that wonderful?�

― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

[Lukas]

"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"

-Terry Pratchett

(referentie naar de Ichtus vis.... Duude bij mij ook even)

[Christa]

[Jonmarie]

[Lukas]

If we start posting quotes on pictures, I have a few nice recent finds as well:

[Christa]

[Lukas]

ROFL @ 'goddamn selfie'
Maar het zijn serieus best wel goede punten.

[Lukas]

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

[Lukas]

Klassiekertje van Courage Wolf

[Cidaan]

Inspirerend zal het weinig zijn, maar...

De humor van Godfried Bomans vond ik de moeite waard.

Ik wou dat ik twee hondjes was, dan kon ik samen spelen.