Paris is a gift I give myself...  

Every true gift we give ourselves is our Spirit, joyfully affirming its existence.  Contrary to what we are taught, satisfying our passions is not sinful indulgence.  It is self-love.  When we give to ourselves, the well does not run dry; it replenishes itself from the Source.  

Self-gifting, with the intention of evolution and expansion puts joy in our lives and money in the bank!  Love begets Love...  Light breeds Light...


This is what it means to be in "A Paris State of Mind!"

As an International Life Coach, it's a part of my job to inspire people.  Here are some phrases that inspire me...

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."  H. G. Wells 

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” 
Lucille Ball

“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”  ~Sri Chinmoy

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” 
Friedrich Nietzsche

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”  Oscar Wilde

“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.” 
Mark Twain

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.” 
Lucille Ball

“Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep."
Rumi 

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” 
Mark Twain

"Assassins!"
Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
Frank Zappa

 
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." 
 e.e. cummings

“The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.” 
W. Somerset Maugham

 “Age is not important unless you're a cheese.” Helen Hayes

“Five in the afternoon is when a man’s sunny disposition is down in the lowest brackets.  Lunch wore off hours ago, and cocktails are not yet in sight.  He isn’t in the mood to oblige anyone about anything.”  
P.G. Wodehouse
                     

“It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.” – Osho

“When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.” 
Bernard Bailey

“I have never met anyone who really likes losing money. And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime.”
Robert Kiyosaki

"Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” – Bob Dylan
  

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” 
W. Somerset Maugham  

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” 
Mark Twain

"You have enemies?  Good.  That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
Winston Churchill

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” 
Rumi

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” 
Rumi

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game." 
Winston Churchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” 
W. Somerset Maugham

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” 
Oscar Wilde    

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones' very existence were a work of art.” 
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Il vino e la poesia della terra."
Mario Soldati

“What do I wear in bed?  Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.” 
Marilyn Monroe

 “What you seek is seeking you.”  Rumi

“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”  W. Somerset Maugham

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” 
Robert Frost

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
Marilyn Monroe

“This is how a human being can change: There’s a worm addicted to eating grape leaves.  Suddenly, he wakes up, call it grace, whatever, something wakes him, and he’s no longer a worm.  He’s the entire vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, a growing wisdom and joy that doesn’t need to devour.” 
Rumi

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” 
Winston Churchill

“There is the beauty of the moment and of the moment gone.  I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections, or the beauty of innuendos, the blackbird whistling or just after.” – Wallace Stevens

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” 
Helen Hayes

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” 
Cary Grant

“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”  - John Coltrane

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea… All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”  - Nikos Kazantzakis

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” – Oscar Wilde's last words.

“What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the little shadow, which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”  - Crowfoot
 

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.” 
Friedrich Nietzsche

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” 
Lucille Ball

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

"...Never, under any circumstances, face the facts!"
Ruth Gordon

“Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.  Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”  
Helen Keller

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tse

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”
Gilda Radner