We meet people for a reason. Either they are a blessing or a lesson.

“I don’t chase anyone anymore. Wanna walk out of my life, there’s the door. Hell, I’ll even hold it for you.”

After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today, Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... That you really are strong, And you really do have worth. And you learn and learn... With every goodbye you learn.

• In vervoering raken
• Paralipomena (dat wat vergeten of weggelaten wordt)
• Glazomania (passie voor lijstjes maken)
• Schijngevoeligheid (gemaaktheid)
• Hypophrenia (droefig gevoel zonder specifieke reden)
• Zeevonk Beter gezegd een mooi fenomeen
• vicissitudes (wisselvalligheden)
• Vergetelheid
• Aporie (Besluiteloosheid, Denkverlegenheid, Hulpeloosheid, Radeloosheid, Verlegenheid)
• Metanoia ( het veranderen van je gedachte of je hart)
• Fathom (doorgronden)
• Attraversiamo (Let's cross over - let go of the past and what was, what could have been, and instead think of now, what is and what will be)
• Bijster

• To find the new Flow on the door mat
• Looking at and reading the Flow
• Discovering new songs with 'Recommended Video's' on Youtube
• Buying a new old book
• Surfing the internet and find nice blogs
• Receiving a letter from a stranger
• Beautiful packaging of an ordinary product
• The smell of old books
• Writing
• Peeling the skin of an orange
• Little newborn lambs in spring
• When my dad gets home with a box of chocolates
• Trees
• Having conversations in the middle of the night with your best friend and everything just comes out naturally and you know he'll never tell a soul
• Seeing cute old couples that you know hav...

'Cause Lord knows I could use a warm kiss instead of a cold goodbye.

• Radiohead - Give up the gost
• Alt-J - Breezeblocks
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Don't forget me
• Arctic Monkeys - Do I wanna know?
• Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
• Youth Group - Forever Young
• Cold War Kids - Bitter Poem

All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him. The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?” Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

All I wanted was a white knight - with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse

• The Sundays Reading, Writing & Arithmetic : onderweg naar Spanje
• Ray LaMontagne Trouble : werkvakantie op Vlieland (op het bootje)
• Music from An Education : op weg naar Parijs!
• Always Love by Nada Surf: gebroken Peyton in eerste paar seizoenen van One Tree Hill
• Suddenly I see by KT Tunstall: coderen en ontwerpen van mijn eigen kindertent-sites
• Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now : begin studententijd. Eerste paar weken treinreizen tussen Minnertsga en Groningen

• Never act on base of strong emotions. Wait until the anger, tears or butterflies have calmed down.
• Not everything that happens needs a response.
• Be honoust about your feelings to others and most importantly - to yourself. You can admit you feel jealous, you don't have to be ashamed about it.

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.

• 21 Jumpstreet
• 500 Days of Summer <3
• Adam <3
• An Education
• Atonement
• Black Swan
• Blue Valentine
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Christiane F.
• Cloud Atlas
• Daydream Nation
• Donnie Darko <3
• Elizabethtown
• Fight Club <3
• Freedom Writers
• Ginger & Rosa
• Gravity
• Happythankyoumoreplease
• Indecent Proposal
• Inglorious Bastards
• Into The Wild

• Knowledge is beauty
• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" Eleanor Roosevelt
• What I wouldn't give, not to stumble but to really fall in love Frank Turner
• "For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Happiness is a cup of tea & a really good book
• "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
• "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero
• "The world is like a book and those who do not travel only read one page." St. Augustine
• "We must be our own before we can be another's" Ralph Waldo Emerson

And then my soul saw you and it kind of went "O there you are. I've been looking for you."

I actually really love it when someone remembers small details and quirks about me or addresses me by my name at unexpected times like at the end of a sentence.

• Bornholm (Denmark)
• Plymouth (England)
• Cyprus (Greece)
• Venice (Italy)
• Prague (Czech Republic)
• Istanbul (Turkey)
• Sicily (Italy)
• Sienna (Italy)
• Galway (Ireland)
• Cathedral of Cartre (France)

Places I've already been:

• Paris (France)
• Rome (Italy)
• Barcelona (Spain)
• Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
• Kucadasi (Turkey)
• Efeze (Turkey)
• Jokyakarta (Indonesia) & Borobudur
• Metro (Indonesia)
• Kathmandu (Nepal)