35/2015 F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

34/2015 Alan Watts

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

Alan Watts

33/2015 Albert Camus

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

32/2015 Journey

 "Every journey begins with a single step."

31/2015 Affirmation

"Ï accept discomfort on the way to my goals."

30/2015 Gratitude

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

29/2015 Chinese Wisdom

"Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are."

Chinese proverb

28/2015 It's September already

27/2015 Dr. Seuss

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."

Dr. Seuss

26/2015 Paul Cezanne

25/2015 Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, 

for you'll be criticized anyway."

Eleanor Roosevelt

24/2015 Camille Pissarro

23/2015 Sophia Loren

"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful."

Sophia Loren

22/2015 YogiTea

 "Expansion, creation, beauty, friendship,

all is love."

from YogiTea

21/2015 If not now, then when?

 "There is no better time than now to start working on your dreams."

Brian Tracy

20/2015 Summertime

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

Sam Keen

19/2015 Anaïs Nin

 "Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anaïs Nin

18/2015 Brian Tracy

"If you change your thinking about yourself, you change your life- almost immediately."

Brian Tracy

17/2015 Coco

"Beauty begins when you decide to be yourself."

Coco Chanel

16/2015 New World

15/2015 Rumi

"Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious."

Rumi

14/2015 Osho

"Drop the idea of becoming someone,

because you are already a masterpiece.

You cannot be improved.

You have only to come to it, to know it,  to realize it."

Osho

13/2015 Shanti

"And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, 

your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."

Shanti

12/2015 Rothko

"It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, 

of breathing and stretching one's arms again."

Mark Rothko

11/2015 / Fifty shades of grey reality

 After unsuccessful attempt to read the book, I decided to give a try to the "Fifty shades of Grey" movie. This time I managed to finish it, but instead of horny, it made me pissed of. Why? Because it's a poorly written modern fairytale about completely ordinary girl and a completely extraordinary guy, who happens to be crazy about her. Oh, did I mentioned that he's a danger to her and she's such a virgin (literally), that's attracted to him like a moth to a flame? (add a vampire part here and it's Twilight saga all over again)

 I get it- how cool and easy life would be to be seduced by a handsome guy, who's 27, awfully rich, self-confident, decisive, totally into you, playing the piano, buying you perfect car and perfect expensive dresses, taking you for a wild rides with one of his cars/helicopters? The fact that he's into SM (or a vampire) is just a tiny little detail, because she'll change him with her love.

 And after getting high on such a dreamy story, your own life seems so awfully grey. Boyfriend (if any) is just as normal as you. No helicopters - metro, bus or a car that misses it's mechanic again. No designers' dresses that magically fit you perfectly - if you're lucky, you'll fit a little mall shopping into your monthly budget. No one will take a charge of your life and change it over the night - that's all on you. 

 

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