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I hope this year brings you all love and success you deserve. Happy new year everyone!
Let’s not waste a second of our lives 
I love this quote:
Here are some more of the funny Zen Teachings that I shared with you the other day:
My favourite is “A closed mouth gathers no foot” I think I should frame it for my husband! He he he
I often receive funny emails about all kinds of things. Just recently I received an email with some Zen teachings and here are my favourite ones:
I love the one about skydiving: If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you!
I read a beautiful quote on the Oprah Facebook page which said:
I’ve tried thinking of ways where you can justify telling someone a lie and every time I’ve concluded that in order to cover up a lie it requires that you tell another 10 more lies on top of the original lie to keep the lie going. So the conclusion is – it’s simply not worth it. Would you agree?
I heard this quote just the other day and I had to share it with you:
I like it because it shows you the importance of hard work and how both are intertwined and one cannot happen without the other.
I red a beautiful quote the other day which said:
I love this quote:
Here is a wonderful quote from the Eat Pray Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert:
I love this quote because I think that a lot of my disappointments come from not accepting the situation that I’m facing and wishing for something different.
I read a great quote on WordPress the other day which said:
I’m not a writer by any means but I’ve often wondered what it would be like to have an incredibly successful book such as the likes of Stephenie Meyer or JK Rowling. I wonder what they would say about what the 3 rules for writing a novel would be?
This is a great short video on happiness which I felt it was so true. In here Elizabeth Gilbert talks about intimacy and relationships.
Just in case if you can’t watch the video this is what she says:
Schopenhauer a pessimistic philosopher had a theory of human relationships that was about porcupines and he used that as the metaphor. He said that in love and in relationships, whether that be with our families, our spouses, our friends, we are all of us on this earth because we are so uncomfortable with our emotions we are like porcupines who are out on a cold winter’s night. They get cold, and they need to huddle together for warmth. They crave connection and they crave warmth. So they come together and then they prick each other because they have these big horrible spines and it’s painful and so in order to avoid the pain they retreat and then they get cold so they come together and then they get spined so they retreat and then they get cold and then come together. And this dance of intimacy is what defines our relationships with everybody that we encounter. There’s this need to be close that’s followed by this need to be separated in order to protect ourselves from the inevitable hurt that happens when you get too close.
Schopenhauer didn’t have much of a remedy for that, he didn’t think that that was ever really going to end, he saw that as our need to our human nature. What he suggested was that those who had learnt how to generate their own warmth were able to keep the safest distance from the other porcupines. Which didn’t necessarily mean living a life of isolation, it just meant not impaling yourself on other people so that you can have that critical little space in which to be a little bit self-contained to create your own warmth, your own sense of your own humanity, so that you could be close without being stabbed. The path to that is the closest secret to happiness as anything I’ve ever heard.
I feel like a porcupine…
I love this quote:
I read a beautiful quote from the Oprah Facebook page the other day and it read:
I felt it was so true. The closer you get to living your truth the closer you get to happiness. What gives you joy?
My husband has just finished reading Tony Blair’s book called Journey and he read a beautiful quote from the book that I thought I should share with you.
I read a great quote from the Anthony Robbins Facebook page the other day and it said:
I need to start designing my life and not let it all be an accident. Are you designing your life?
I enjoy reading Ruth Ostrow’s column piece in the Weekend Australian Magazine. I enjoyed reading the piece titled The Gift of Change and there was one particular paragraph that I liked which read:
Times of change can be quite difficult and challenging but more often than not they bring the biggest and most wonderful gifts. So it is best to embrace it J
Please visit the Ruth Ostrow website for more information.
With words such as these, anyone can look forward to spring.
For more wonderful words such as these, please visit the Folk of Feodora’s Lane website. You are sure to love it!
Words have such an amazing power over my mind and these words have the power to make me dream.
