Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama If there is something that I learnt over the years, is that life is full of surprises: that job that you didn’t get, the house of your dreams already sold, that person ignoring you – they might actually…
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. – Desmond Tutu Today I woke up with a notification from BBC news, about the first dose of the vaccine being administered to Margaret Keenan, a (almost) 91 years young lady from Enniskillen. It is a small step, but it…
Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive. – Anonymous I know, I know, it is easier said than done. But sometimes we are so focused on what we want to achieve, that we forget to check on what really matters: ourselves. Is it really worth to keep pushing to reach our goals, even…
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
One day you will look back and see that all along, you were blooming. All along, you were being prepared for something that was far greater than you, and even though it was so hard to see in the moment, it made all the difference that you chose to believe: even here, even now, your…
“And so I say to myself that, if there are people who play violin, change diapers, play amateur porn videos, teach hip-hop, sow and read Harry Potter, there is for sure at least one out of seven billion who waits for me, and in ten minutes I’ll meet him.” Chiara Gamberale, Per Dieci Minuti You wake…
“And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” The Beatles I have always considered myself a citizen of the world: I am Rome as, no matter how insignificant is what I am doing, I put all my heart and passion towards it; I am London with my dry…
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling At the end of the day, failure is part of the process. You didn’t get that job today, and maybe…
Twenty-twenty: it sounds like a comforting number, there is a 2 and then a 0, then again, and you think that you know what is coming your way. I am sure that for most of us it has been a very different year: the luckiest ones can only complain about getting bored to be stuck…
I can’t bake. This is something I already wrote many times here in the blog, and I have said it out loud so many times that I’ve lost count. It is a strange machine our brain, isn’t it? We store a piece of information and it just lives there, rent free, no questions asked. I…
