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Dorothee Solle: “If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.”

Edith Wharton: “True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

Rabbinical Saying: “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

Elizabeth Aston: “Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one’s own troubles.”

Gordon Atkinson: “Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.”

Victor Hugo: “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Irish Proverb: “Praise youth and it will prosper.”

Meryl Streep: “I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.”

Dorothy Day: “I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

Ellen Metcalf: “You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can’t sit back and wait.”

Happy New Year y’all!

2016 will be another year filled with opportunities for us all, and it is up to each and everyone of us to recognise and take them! 🙂

I am no guy for New Years resolutions so you won’t find them here. 🙂 I believe more in New Day resolutions and every day is a new opportunity for that…after all, January 1 is ‘just’ another New Day, eh? Especially when you consider that half the world population (China and traditionally in India) celebrate New Year on a different date!

Today is that unique and special day in the year when one day makes a whole year difference; we turn the imaginary page of time tonight and after celebrating it we wake up in a brand New Year. By then, page 2015 of the ‘book of life and the world’ has been completely written, and we have stored all experiences of the past year in it.

The year of 2015 has been a year which continued where 2014 left it; my first whole year running my own company, a busy year without any vacation (had some nice weekend trips though), Misha turned four and started kindergarten/pre-school *also* in NL, the big little angel is getting completely bi-langual (and a Silver member for KLM Flying Dutch ha! 🙂 ), I electrified my mobility from LEAF to Tesla and enjoyed some very nice (dance) events to remember…all in all been a splendid year which included, as always, the continuous process of letting go of past and getting to know the present and future possibilities…highs and lows are all balanced in the end.

It is good to know that all the 2015 experiences are stored in a safe place; in my heart and my memory…I can look back, laugh, cry, read, learn, and all of that without any regrets!

Writing things down and then turning the page of time also means that things can be put to rest…it is a good moment to go on and look forward towards everything that future offers and say: “2016 here I am!!”

Time…it is o-so relative…I wish everyone a splendid life in the Now, filling each moment with unconditional love, share it and pass it on…

Ken Keyes Jr.: “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”

Charles Dickens: “Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Indira Gandhi: “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

Georgia O’Keeffe: “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Willa Cather: “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “Love isn’t a decision. It’s a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.”

David Viscott: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

Merry Xmas everrrrybodyyy!! Ho Ho Hooooo! 🙂

I wish all you angels out there Warmth, Light and most of all LOVE!