Kleeps blog: Quiet in my town

zaterdag 13 november 2010

Quiet in my town

Het kerkhof is één ruïne. Doodkisten en lijken liggen door elkaar heen. Ze zijn nog eens vermoord ; maar elk van die mishandelde lijken heeft één van ons gered.

Zulke jonge, onschuldige kerels.

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE, Van het westelijk front geen nieuws, Utrecht, Bijleveld, 2006, p. 46, regel 6-11.

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Rocky Balboa

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take, and keep going forward. That's how winning is done. Now if you know what you are worth, go out and get what you are worth. But you got to be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying: You ain't what you want to be because of him or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You^r 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 all meant o shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us : it's in everyone. And as we let our own 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.