The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.”–(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls “flow”)

Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo

Perhaps once in a lifetime we meet someone who has the ability to inspire us in one brief meeting, who can confront not one but two life-threatening illnesses with remarkable courage – and instil hope...

Let me open my heart so that everyone can love. Let me love so that everyone can open their hearts.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

We all have our personal Andes.

A child fish asks mother fish, ‘Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?’ Mother fish replied, ‘Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish

It is important to recognize when you have been detached from life for too long. The fact is you are still alive, and I can only imagine that your loved one would want you to...

Whether you think you’re right or you think you’re wrong. You’re right.””If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

You just have to say to yourself, “I am not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am Beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be...

When you’re feeling insecure, you typically don’t notice the hundreds of people around you who accept you just the way you are. All you notice are the few who don’t. Don’t ever forget your worth....

In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will, while Ishtar descends of her own accord to beat at the gates of...

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

Ellie: “You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.”Richard: “Good will triumph over evil.”Ellie: “Liar.

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing...

Make sure that today is better than yesterday.

Mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not...

219Take up and read, take up and read.

Love is merely a combination between infatuation and confusion.

Don’t live in a world of ‘I never should have’. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at...

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are...

And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?” he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. “Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to...

You change the world by changing your thought. You change the thought by changing your heart.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may...

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

Look. Isn’t he beautiful?”Drew’s expression softened. “Ah, Nellie. He’s bald, pink, and has no teeth. What’s so beautiful about that?”Nellie’s laugh tinkled out like musical chimes while she covered the babe back up.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them,...

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so...

Misery alternates with euphoria.

With love you can transform inner sparks of possibility into flames of reality.

There’s no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

I think that a lot of the time, people are generous towards those whom they pity; but only find fault in those whom they see as better than themselves. There is a fake kind of...

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

So much to see, so much to do.So much adventure just waiting for you.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else’s path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else’s way,you are not going...

If everything else were still the same, he’d have felt Zee’s absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had...

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.

There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes...