“Days of slow walking are very long; they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints. Hurrying means doing several things at once, and quickly: this; then that; and then something else. When you hurry, timeContinue reading “To Live Longer, Walk Slowly”
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Hold on
Because faith is not a feeling… From Ellen G. White “After Praying, Continue to Claim the Promise—After the prayer is made, if the answer is not realized immediately, do not weary of waiting and become unstable. Waver not. Cling to the promise, ‘Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.’ Like theContinue reading “Hold on”
Our own judgment
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.— Henry David Thoreau Well, isn’t this food for thought. -GY
Eres Mi Misterio
En la vida, nada sale como planeamos. Y muchas veces, no entendemos. ¿Sera que alguien con una mirada se te pueda meter por las venas? ¿Sera que los misterios más grandes no se resuelven, sino que tenemos que aceptar la magia que los creo? No sé quién eres— Algunas veces, cuando no conoces a alguien,Continue reading “Eres Mi Misterio”
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Some Lit Quotes for the Soul
The heart needs some inspiration from fiction at times. Enjoy! John Green: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Jane Austen: Joanne Harris: Elizabeth Gilbert: Jhumpa Lahiri:
La Seduction
By: Gabriela Yareliz This week, I bought a fabulous little book called La Seduction by Elaine Sciolino, a Paris-based journalist. The book is about French politics and the art of seduction (no, not the sexual kind, per se)… This is an art I need to solidly learn. I mean, when I took the book toContinue reading “La Seduction”
When Oddity and Loneliness Hold Hands
By: Gabriela Yareliz Let’s talk loneliness. Being alone can feel maddening at times. Why do you think people in solitary confinement end up with serious problems? New York City can sometimes feel like the loneliest place in the world. Sometimes, it is pointless to escape the white walls and fluorescent lamps of your studio forContinue reading “When Oddity and Loneliness Hold Hands”
As heard on “Lessons We Can Learn From Royalty” by Ravi Zacharias
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nuestro pequeño mundo de arena y sal
XXVI Islas Caminar por la arena cuando apenas está hollada es como descubrir el mundo por primera vez: todo es nuevo y puro y frágil como la luz que nos cubre y rendidos ante ella no dejamos de ser sino islas de un archipiélago: cada una con su identidad pero cada una perdida en laContinue reading “Nuestro pequeño mundo de arena y sal”
GABRIELA YARELIZ 