Alya Derin

“Relationships are living things—they require tending. Like plants, they flourish when they are cared for. Our ended relationships remind us of how much nurturing was withheld, how many resentments piled up, how much communication never occurred, how many needs went unfulfilled. They challenge us to see how we were lazy last time and what we must do differently in order to cultivate our next relationship.”
― Daphne Rose Kingma, Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours

“You are ultimately destined to discover your power and accept its responsibilities,”
― Mike Dooley, Life on Earth: Understanding Who We Are, How We Got Here, and What May Lie Ahead

“Creativity can only come from silence. If we maintain two minutes of silence every day, then we will see that a whole new dimension of life opens up.”
― Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Management Mantras

“Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big