Julie Smith > Quotes

“We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“It was something about all the stupid stuff Torian wouldn’t have to do anymore—like put up with asshole tourists who peed on your house at Mardi Gras.”
― Julie Smith, The Kindness of Strangers

“cr”
― Julie Smith

“Quarter were a regular retail mafia; the owner and Dahveed probably took each other’s UPS deliveries. But it was a good place to regroup. She pretended”
― Julie Smith, Crescent City Connection

“She was furious at the system and furious that Haygood Mayhew could manipulate it and furious that it hadn’t worked. And that she was part of it and was covered in slime; part of the system and part of a conspiracy to let someone get away with murder.”
― Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning

“If he really didn't want women to call him at the office, he probably shouldn't have told them that. It's like when somebody says. 'whatever you do, don't open that door.' Of course that's the door you're going to open.”
― Julie Smith

“We shift into curiosity, where there is no need for self-attack. So whether it has been a great week or a hard one, we learn and grow.”
― Julie Smith

“looked at his watch. Eight-thirty. Way too early”
― Julie Smith, Louisiana Hotshot

“Irma La Douce,”
― Julie Smith, Death Turns a Trick

“Or other nights when, for no reason, her suddenly girlish heart went Southern on her and gave birth to the blues.”
― Julie Smith, Jazz Funeral

“confirmed,”
― Julie Smith, Louisiana Hotshot

“Keeping our values front and centre also helps us to persevere through painful points in life knowing we’re on the right path.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? / If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...

“J’ai fait mon choix. J’ai pas de regrets.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Crucially, this exercise is not about all the problems we face and the pleasant or painful emotions we encounter each day. It is about the meaning we find in both the toughest and easiest days. It does not ask us to wait until everything is fine before we start living as the kind of person we want to be. It gets us thinking about how we can consciously choose to live by our values, whatever is going on around us.”
― Julie Smith

“You cannot change what you cannot make sense of.”
― Julie Smith

“Thoughts are not facts. They are guesses, stories, memories, ideas and theories. They are a construct offered to you by your brain as one potential explanation for the sensations you are experiencing right now.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? / If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...

“I’m a shrink, girlfriend. How could I be crazy?”
― Julie Smith, Death Before Facebook

“There had always been battle lines drawn between the upper administration and the faculty. Even those who had once been faculty immediately began to view their former colleagues as troublesome children. She had once toyed seriously with the idea of university administration, and had even attended one of those academic leadership development seminars at Charles’s request and the university’s expense. But once she heard one of the speakers encourage the participants to consider boning up on child psychology and further suggested imagining one’s faculty colleagues as characters in Winnie the Pooh, she knew she could never cross over to the dark side, as the professorial wing of academe called the upper administration.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“That stuff’ll kill you.” “What? Your coffee?” Jack was just doctoring his second cup. “No. All that saccharine. You’re poisoning yourself.” “We’ve all gotta go sometime.” Jack went right about then.”
― Julie Smith, True-Life Adventure

“If you slow your breathing down, you can calm the body and, in turn, slow your breathing. Not only this, but if you can extend the outbreath so that it is longer or more vigorous than the inbreath, this helps to slow your heart rate down. When the pounding heart comes down, so does the anxiety response. Some people like to count the breaths when doing an extended outbreath, such as breathing in for a count of 7 and out for a count of 11, or a variation that works for you.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? / If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...

“l’esclavage.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Res ipsa loquitur.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“And that was when he knew for sure: No one was in charge. No one at all. As he’d suspected, there was very definitely no plan.”
― Julie Smith, The Big Crazy

“We cannot directly choose our emotions and switch them on but we can use the things we can control to change how we feel.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? / The Highly Sensitive Person / How to Talk to Anyone / Unf*ck Yourself

“cou rouge”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“Philippe Starck.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies

“New Orleans, though technically a city, is more like a nation unto itself; though legally a piece of America, it’s Caribbean in its soul, as exotic an adventure as exists short of navigating the Amazon.”
― Julie Smith, Jazz Funeral

“Moon walk,”
― Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning

“Louis de Bourbon and his right hands Cardinal Mazarin and Jean-Louis Colbert transformed France, particularly the city of Paris, into a haven for civilized society, a refuge for the arts, a gastronomic mecca for gourmands. That is what Georges-Guillaume Damas wanted to do for Gabon in Africa.”
― Julie Smith, Cozy Leading Ladies