“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic When it comes to following traditions, Italy takes…
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think…
“Fall in love with yourself, with life and then with whoever you want.” -Frida Kahlo
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The…
“If I let go of who I am I become who I might be” – Lao Tzu. Too often we forget to be ourselves, to do what we love, to pursue our dreams: we have been taught that we need to tick some boxes in order to be considered successful. And in doing so, we forget what really matters: happiness, serenity,…
“And thence we came forth to see again the stars”.-Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy basically describe Dante’s travel through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, with the aim to find God. The Inferno book ends with this quote “E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle”, that translate as “and thence we came forth…
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are“.- Elizabeth Gilbert Sometimes it is easy to forget that we are not meant to be perfect: we are allowed to be late, to miss a deadline, to send “that” text, to put some weight on, to burn the dinner in the oven. It is ok, there is a…
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play“. ― Alan W. Watts
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” -John Barrymore
“Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You’re infinite…. And on those keys, the music that you can make… is infinite. They are 88. You are infinite.” -The Legend of 1900, Alessandro Baricco Ora tu pensa: un pianoforte. I…
