"When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy."

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Source : "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

Ruud Gullit

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Everybody is overlooking me. I just want to show the world that, hey, he is in there with a live dog. He is not in there with a little puppy. He is in there with a live dog. I am going to show the world that he belongs with the best; he wants to fight the best. This is the guy that has heart and balls that gives everything in the ring, that's what he wants.”
“The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.”
“To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.”
“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”
“Itâ€™s the leftover humans. The survivors. Theyâ€™re the ones I canâ€™t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. Itâ€™s the story of one of those perpetual survivors â€“an expert at being left behind.”
“Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone elseâ€™s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to â€œhelpâ€ and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.”
“Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be clichÃ© to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.”
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”

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