“When our needs are met, only then can we truly meet others’ needs. Too often we spend all our time taking care of others because we are looking for love, approval, or appreciation. When our cup is full, we are able to give without needing this in return. Love, approval, and appreciation just become icing on the cake. Self-care and time-management go hand in hand. Whenever I mention self-care, I usually hear, “I do not have enough time for that.” Mindset training is self-care. To me, it is the most important form of self-care. Things like massages, manicures, and other spa type treatments may feel like they are more important, but they are not. Those give much more temporary shifts in vibration. Mindset training, when done regularly, can give long-lasting shifts in vibration and allow you to stay in balance during times of stress.”
Source: Heal Yourself: Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit
“If you look for problems hard enough, you’re bound to find one.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Dreams will come true as long as you give some effort towards your goal”
“But that I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it,
And nothing is at a like goodness still;
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy,
Dies in his own too-much. That we would do
We should do when we would. For this 'would' changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents.
And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.”
Source: Hamlet
“The truth of the statement was like a wadded-up handerchief, sopping wet in my fists, and the sooner they accepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the air would cool my palms.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“La salvación del náufrago está en manos del náufrago.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“La moda fue hecha para quien carece de gusto, la etiqueta para quien carece de educación y las iglesias para quienes carecen de fe”
Source: Llamadme Alejandra
“- Entonces la respuesta es No - dijo el ruso, acomodándose triunfante, en el sillón. ¡Si hubiera estado realmente enamorada, lo sabría! No importa si el amor ya no está. Si se perdió. Incluso si ese amor la dañó de un modo irreparable. El amor, Daniela, el Amor con mayúscula, deja una marca en nosotros imposible de borrar. Impacta en el alma de forma tal que ya nada es igual. Hay un antes y un después de ese amor. Y nada vuelve a ser lo mismo. Es nacer de nuevo. Y es morir de nuevo.”
Source: Almas de Otoño: Una novela epica sobre los ultimos dias de la Rusia Imperial (El Portador)
“She climbed into the carriage and sat down across from the other lady. Pip hopped inside.
Miss Royle smiled down at the terrier. "Oh, what a sweet little dog!"
Pip wagged his tail and placed his front paws on Miss Royle's skirts for a pat and Bridget began to suspect he was a flirt.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“He looked back at Eve, holding out his hand. "Come on, then."
She looked between him and his hand, pressing her lips together, but not moving.
He frowned. "Eve."
She inhaled and took his hand, awkwardly inching toward him without a sound.
"Brave lass," Asa purred.
He caught her other hand, ignoring her flinch, and pulled her into his arms. What a small thing she was! She might be tall, but Eve's body was as light as a bird's. He could feel the delicate bones of her shoulder, the slender span of her waist, and he thanked God that she'd not been crushed by the planks falling on her.”
Source: Sweetest Scoundrel