"My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing."

-- Candace Bushnell

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“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct â€“ not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.45, Delacorte Press
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”

Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing
“Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.”
“We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.”
“I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.”
“I can't do everything but I can do something to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more,”
“My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.”

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