Reindert Van Zwaal

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”
― Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

“Ik heb altijd gedacht dat je goed moest luisteren naar wat er in je leefde, dat je zo in je echte leven terechtkwam. Maar misschien is dat een verhaal, de manier waarop je je leven mist, dat dat je leven is.”
― Valentijn Hoogenkamp, Antiboy

“All the way down to my gut I got something I’d never gotten before. I got that when a person is rude and abusive to me, it’s not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they’re revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They’re just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else. Does that make sense? It’s the first time I’ve tried to put it into words.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, So Long, Chester Wheeler