PEARLS OF WISDOM

I didn’t know who Les Brown was until I read some of his quotes, which truly spoke to me. Since I’m going through a complicated time and I feel somewhat overwhelmed, these words are helping me staying motivated and focused on my dreams and myself.

This statement reminds me of that of the Oracle of Delphi, which is “Know Thyself”, words that are also attributed to Greek philosopher Socrates.

These words made me think of those spoked by Nelson Mandela, “may your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears”.

I hope these words will speak to you the way they spoke to me.

“The Crimson Petal and the White” is such a beautiful novel. If you haven’t read it, or you haven’t watched BBC miniseries starring Romola Garai (I haven’t), it’s the story of the social rise of a prostitute, Sugar, thanks to one of her rich clients, the heir of a cosmetics business, who purchases her from the brothel-keeper, which is also Sugar’s mother (if I’m not wrong, I read the novel years ago) to make her his own paramour. The novel is set in London, during the Victorian era.

Sugar is such a fascinating creature, one of those characters you get attached to. She’s beautiful, pretty cultured, and smart. She knows she deserves a better life and she manages to achieve it.

The words I chose for this post are beautifully and painfully true.

These words by writer and teacher Ernest Agyemang Yeboah probably have a deep meaning and have nothing to do with clothes but they sounded perfect for the post of today, the 1rst of March, which is the first day of astronomical spring.

It’s freezing in Europe, it’s snowing a lot in many countries but I can’t help, I’m dreaming about spring. A lot of posts dedicated to this beautiful season are coming and, hopefully, better weather!

I read these words by Italian philosopher Tommaso d’Aquino (Thomas Aquinas) on Tumblr and they immediately struck me. I know their meaning is supposed to be deep, since d’Aquino was a Dominican friar, a theologian and a philosopher who lived in the XIII century but they can be related to many aspects of our everyday life.

It’s so true that what we love, who we love, define us.

I recently read these words on Tumblr (and I immediately pinned them) and I know they’re pretty unsurprising. Unsurprising but true.

In the era of social media, negative people seem to be everywhere, ready to virtually ambush you, sometimes without even understanding what you wrote, because they probably read one word out of three of your thought. Even if 99% of the times I don’t care about what strangers think about me, I admit that sometimes I take it bad. Not because I care, but because it makes me sad that such people exist, vote and reproduce!

The fact that there’s so much negativity, hatred and rudeness in the world, virtual and real one, makes me sad but one thing is sure. Negative people need other people’s negativity and I’m trying not to give them anything. Most of the time you can avoid them and that’s what I decided to do.

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