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“Vanuit de trein lijkt alles vredig, geen criminelen, geen boeven of schavuiten. Geen mishandelingen, geen gekwetste gevoelens en geen verdriet. Ik wou dat de wereld iets meer was, zoals hij er vanuit de trein uit ziet.”

Hey guys, I know a lot of you are starting school/college this year, so I’ve put together my top seven go-to’s for the upcoming academic year! 

“The fight-or-flight alarm reaction exists today of the same purpose evolution originally assigned to it: to enable us to survive. What has happened is that we have lost touch with our gut feelings designed to be our warning system. The body mounts a stress response, but the mind is unaware of the threat. We keep ourselves in physiologically stressful situations, with only a dim awareness of distress or no awareness at all…the salient stressors in the lives of most human beings today – at least in the industrialized world – are emotional. Just like laboratory animals unable to escape, people find themselves trapped in lifestyles and emotional patterns inimical to their health. The higher the level of economic development, it seems, the more anesthetized we have become to our emotional realities. We no longer sense what is happening in our bodies and cannot therefore act in self-preserving ways. The physiology of stress eats away at our bodies not because it has outlived its usefulness but because we may no longer have the competence to recognize its signals.”

“Anyone who truly cares about you will always find a way back to you.”

“You must understand, if you want to be a poet, there is no stopping place. We poets go on and on. Stations. Small stops. Sometimes an oasis. That’s it, on and on and on.”

“The thing is: you won’t know what love is until you experience all that you can. You will think you know what love is when you’re driving in the car with your high school sweetheart. You will think you know what love is when you marry your first husband or wife. You will think you know what love is during your first affair. You will think you know what love is when you’re sitting on a porch with an old lover. But you won’t. You won’t know what love is until you’re laying there on you deathbed, thinking about one person.”

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“You wanted love and expected what? A parachute? Morphine? A gold sticker star? The moment you were born— you have to trust others because you weren’t there. Ditto death. The strongest gift I was ever given was made of twigs. It didn’t matter which way it broke.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“Hij zei: Het leven moet nu en dan krankzinnig idioot zijn, soms moet je er een trap tegen geven zodat alles een ogenblik scheef komt te staan, anders is het een doffe aaneenschakeling van betekenisloze datums, waar je je ten slotte niets van herinnert: willekeurige fragmentjes leven die geen gestructureerd geheel vormen, het leven als opeenvolging van toevallige anekdoten. Nu en dan moet je iets durven, ben je het daarmee eens?”