Happy Easter

The soul is dyed in the color of its thoughts. 

Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. 

The content of your character is your choice. 

Day by day, what you do is who you become. 

Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus 

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Give yourself a good, solid, clear and meaningful reason to

do whatever you’re doing. 

Give yourself a real, authentic dream.

Give yourself a dream that has meaning, and that compels you

forward. Keep yourself solidly connected to that dream.

Let your dream flow naturally and honestly from the vision

you have for how life can be. 

Make your dream so big and exciting that you cannot fail

 to put the best of yourself into it.

Give yourself a dream, and give it to all the world as well.

Choose a dream that enables you to lift others higher as you

lift yourself higher and do what you truly love.

Let go of the excuses, the complaints, the anger, envy and

frustration. Put the miraculous power of your thoughts,

words and actions into the good and positive things that

truly matter.

At this time of new beginnings, choose to live with more

substance and meaning than ever before. Give yourself a

dream, and give all of life the unique benefit of the very

best you can be.

 Ralph Marston 

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andre petterson

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"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… .

Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions,

in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too

in a net of good and evil… . There is no other story.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life,

will have left only the hard, clean questions:

Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?"

 John Steinbeck

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there will come a time, a day, a moment when words 
are not enough. when the letters hooking to other 
letters and tying themselves to each other, 
the trains of vowels and consonants chasing each other 
out of my mouth just won’t do justice to the avalanche
that you’re struggling through.

if this is…

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mark rothko

kathryn markel

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karen rips

johannes girardoni

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be in the now

We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime.  

They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; 

they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. 

These are the most important people in your life, 

and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. 

But there’s still one more tier to all this; 

there is always one person you love who becomes that definition.

 It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. 

This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. 

You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. 

You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. 

This is because the individual who embodies

 your personal definition of love does not really exist. 

The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. 

And context is everything. 

The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet first time you really, 

really want to love someone. 

But that person still wins. 

They win, and you lose. 

Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.

Chuck Klosterman

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"It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think,

 ‘I want to go home.’ 

But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. 

You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. 

And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. 

I felt that. Still do. 

I’m never completely at home anywhere." 

 Danzy Senna

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LEFT BRAIN- I am the left brain
I am a scientist. A mathematician.
I love the familiar, I categorize. I am accurate. Linear.
Analytical. Strategic. I am practical.
Always in control. A master of words and lenguage.
Realistic. I calculate ecuations and play with numbers.
I am order. I am logic.
I know exactly who I am.

RIGHT BRAIN- I am the right brain.
I am creativity, a free spirit. I am passion.
Yearning . Sensuality. I am the sound of the roaring laughter .
I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet.
I am movement. Vivid colors,
I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas,
I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel.
I am everything I wanted to be.

 'cei care asculta. cei care te asculta. cei care nu aud.
 cei care nu spun. cei care tac. cei care te tac.
 cei care fug. cei care ard. cei care dor.'

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Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. 

This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. 

Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. 

Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. 

How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. 

 someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. 

So crystalline. So pure. 
Such life saving power when you smile. 

You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. 

So sad that we will never touch. 

How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have

 Henry Rollins 

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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

 Augusten Burroughs

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The unreal is more powerful than the real. 

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. 

Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. 

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. 

But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

 If you can change the way people think. 

The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. 

You can change the way people live their lives. 

That’s the only lasting thing you can create.

 Chuck Palahniuk

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"I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations 

in which you lose self-consciousness 

and become fused with other people, 

experiences, or tasks. 

It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge,

 or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. 

It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, 

or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. 

And it happens most when we connect with other people. 

I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments.

 Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined 

with other people and with activities"

David Brooks (Social Animal)

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‎'the intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.'

albert einstein

Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez

"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. 

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. 

It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. 

It could mean jail. It could mean mockery—isolation.

 Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, 

of how much you really want to do it.

 And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. 

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. 

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. 

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is."

Charles Bukowski

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Raising a Voice- Happy Women's Day!

I've participated yesterday at the first European Professional Women's Network conference in Bucharest, Romania, about promoting the professional progress of women through all their career phases, from potential through the pipeline to power by networking, mentoring and training, focusing on raising women's voices, interconnecting the generations and sharing best practices and knowledge across Europe.

I was amazed and honored to be among all those great women.

Happy Women's Day!

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