“When there is love to be given, I will resist the impulse to decide if I have time, because I know there is always, always time for love.”
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
“It is not always possible for me to choose love in the midst of challenging situations, but I can definitely try to soften—soften my voice, my touch, my opinion, and my timetable.”
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
― Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love
“We need time to be awake but not ready and available — to our boss, clients, partner, friends, and even our children. Even the busiest, most responsible, indispensable, or in-demand person can create small spaces to step off the hamster wheel of others’ needs.”
― The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
― The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
“Plainness was not necessarily simplicity,” Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. “Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.” My”
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” Yes.”
― The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life
― The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life
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