Author: Pippi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King, Jr. –

Oh, the promise of an olive twig …

Fear is the unhealthy adoration of something that cannot harm you.

– Unknown –

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

– Theodore Roosevelt –

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

– Coco Chanel –

It travelled more than 500 million kilometres simply as passenger, sleeping dreamless, vacuum-packed. The five-and-a-half-month voyage was devoid of all interest until the very end, when the spacecraft lost 20 000kph of its velocity in just over six minutes as it plunged through and alien sky to the desert below. Parachutes spread and airbags deployed. The package bounced, rolled and came to rest.
Opportunity still had 45km to go.

– First paragraph of Economist Obituary for Opportunity, rover on Mars –

When you’re working with music that is invariably better than you are, it’s difficult to become swell-headed.

– André Previn –

Goodnight! says the stars and the mountain and the lights, lets forget all the anger and the fights…

– m –

dit is stil in wit en swart… asof vasgenael, met blik op tyd, word die essensie van wat IS ge-ets…

-m-

Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need.
People who genuinely care.
They are the ones worth keeping in your life.
Everyone else is just passing through.

– Karl Marx –