Saved by Camellias: Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We often hide our true selves from people around us. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian …
We often hide our true selves from people around us. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian …
To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever …
Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship – that of parent and child – begins entirely with a coincidence. The child is produced by whatever …
This world isn’t a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of other people and that day you will be wiser. You will know how …
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Image © Wolfgang …
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they’ve been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves …
If you’d rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start …
The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves. ―Kamand Kojouri Image: Dog and cat © …
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. –Marc Chagall Image: Shaded Colour Wheel, Moses Harris (1731-1785)
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person – probably because of the fables …