Category: Quotes & manifesto

Reste devant la porte si tu veux qu’on te l’ouvre. Ne quitte pas la voie si tu veux qu’on te guide. Rien n’est fermé jamais, sinon à tes propres yeux. Attar (Farid al-Din) et je le répéte on-a-on : Rien n’est fermé jamais, sinon à tes propres yeux. Just ask for watcha want and believe… Continue reading Attar (Farid al-Din)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

‘Caus i like manifestos… Write down your short and long term GOALS four times a year. 2 personal, 2 business and one health goal. A class study at Yale found only 3 percent of the students had written goals. 20 years later, the same 3 percent were wealthier than the other 97% combined.

‘I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy’ – Joseph Heller, Something Happened. It might be me. So much ideas, so much will, so much i need to do. So less time, and just one head and two hands.

‘think i’ve posted it a while ago. This manifesto is printed and is laying over my desk since months. Just thought i should share it over here. * THE SEED MANIFESTO.

Reading his entry remembered me of this quite inspiring manifesto by Milton Glaser i posted about years ago but totally forgot.

All this stuff around podcasting inspired me – raising questions that are basically relating to me, my life and the way i choose to take on things. I do claim the right to be wrong – take the wrong decision, choose the wrong path, to make spelling mistakes, to balble, dable, eeeee and aaaaaaa, stumble… Continue reading Life Manifesto

I’ve wrote here before about times when i am getting confused – sickness often follow with the confusedness i am in – about decisions i have to make or directions i have to take. The easiest is often to just open a book, and read. Here’s for this morning: ‘Ideas are like seeds; when they… Continue reading Morni’n

“L’Internet, c’est quand même pas si pire… Y’a pleins de films à télécharger gratuitement.”

“Imaginer, c’est choisir.” Jean Giono “Imaginer, c’est hausser le réel d’un ton.” Gaston Bachelard (merci à g!)

‘√áa marche pas l’Internet. c’est de la fabulation. Vive les charettes pis les lampes à huile. √áa c’est fiable.’ A. Lauzon

“tsé quand t’es rendu au top, y’é ou le top ??” Le batteur du groupe les B.B.

Whatever appears in your life is the perfect teacher or you. No two lives are the same. Don’t get lost in comparing your experiences to anybody else’s experiences. Each life is beautifully unique, and each reflects the whole. Joko Beck

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened… Continue reading Mary Oliver

“Perfection is the enemy of done.” Jackie Landis

i have found this tonight while searching for a picture. I made a copy of this article when i was 20, starting graphic design classes. I had it on my wall for so long, now its all broken. I have no idea who wrote it, it think i found it in a old issue of… Continue reading hold out for the things you believe in

“Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.” Chandan

Problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems you would just drift through life, and you would not gain inner growth. Peace pilgrim

“Why do I live alone? This is crazy. It is lamentable. I am flawed, I am nuts. I can’t help it. Here I am, now,…happy as a coot. The whole business of saying I am flawed is a lie. I am happy. I cannot explain it…Freedom, darling. This is what the woods mean to me.… Continue reading Thomas Merton

“If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability – then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it. If somebody appreciates, good, you feel grateful. If nobody appreciates, it is… Continue reading Osho

‘Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. When you understand, whatsoever you do – cooking, cleaning, etc… Life consists of small things; just your ego goes on saying these are small things. You would like some great thing to do – a great poetry, a great painting… Drop the… Continue reading Osho

We worry because we project ourselves into the future. We worry because we do not trust. We are at ease when we live in the here and now. We are at ease when we trust. Nhasti

‘As we let go, the energy that has been tied up in the various places of resistance is released. Whoosh! Life opens up, surges through, moves, expands, and suddenly we see possibilities that weren’t available before.’ Cheri Huber

“Consider this: what if ‘original sin’ is denying instead of celebrating your originality? Each of us possesses an exquisite, extraordinary gift: the opportunity to give expression to Divinity on earth through our everyday lives. When we choose to honor this priceless gift, we participate in the recreation of the world” Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.” Bruce Mau This quote also remembers me about how our lifes are the results of the choices we make… Every decisions, every move in one direction is creating what will be next… A mystery called… Continue reading Bruce Mau

One of the best manifesto i have read so far… I still have a copy of it on my wall, a copy that i have since 2 years… Most challenging parts are in my opinion: 20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.… Continue reading An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

“Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.” Cheri Huber

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

“Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.” Chandan

“What’s the difference between a life of comfort and security and a life of risk and total insecurity? One is just being like everyone else. The other is a great thrill, and furthers something unknown and unlimited that’s ever-present. And that’s what living the spiritual life is.” Andrew Cohen

“Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead In the memory of the 23-year-old activist Rachel Corrie who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer on Sunday the 16th of March 2003. (from Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology… Continue reading Margaret Mead

“The transformation of one individual becomes a source of and a catalyst for transformation in others.” Andrew Cohen

Life is a journey, not a destination. Take it one day at a time. Unknown