"Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both."

-- Carol Bellamy

#Girl Quotes #Cookies Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Jan 04, 2015
“To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
“I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.”
“Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my familyâ€™s pool, back when we were both seven, or Iâ€™ll know youâ€™re an alien replacement and youâ€™ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!â€ I glared at him. â€œG.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,â€ I said. â€œAnd stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. Weâ€™re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.”
“Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna”
“My dad is a natural-born encourager. The last person who will ever tell you to lower your sights or give up your dream.”
“When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it mean? We obviously embraced the technological side of a factory, as a factory can be anything from something that insights fear, like a government machine, to something of futuristic technology, or it could be religion. So we embraced the technological side of it back in the early days.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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