“No one really wants to be idealized - we want to be seen and accepted and forgiven, and to know that we can be ourselves in our less edifying moments.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.”
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
― Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“Because when you like who you are when you are with another person, you realize how important it is to be around people who make you feel that way. They reflect your goodness back to you, and you know you’ve got it.”
― Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
― Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
“I am a human being, meant to be in perpetual becoming. My goal is not to remain the same but to live in such a way that each day, year, moment, relationship, conversation , and crisis is the material I use to become a truer, more beautiful version of myself.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“Which of my beliefs are of my own creation and which were programmed into me?”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
Ornella’s 2025 Year in Books
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