Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop. Eleanor Brown More Quotes by Eleanor Brown More Quotes From Eleanor Brown There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. Eleanor Brown realizing stories past Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. Eleanor Brown empty-vessels selfish care Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. Eleanor Brown support self ideas Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel. Eleanor Brown empty-vessels selfish care Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear. Eleanor Brown obstacles journey faces The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy. Eleanor Brown lasts asking answers Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart. Eleanor Brown grateful pain heart Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts. Eleanor Brown disappointment hurt You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back. Eleanor Brown may littles believe A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level. Eleanor Brown provocative levels taste There is no problem a library card can't solve. Eleanor Brown library problem cards We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again. Eleanor Brown patterns influence names Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us. Eleanor Brown destiny three way We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate. Eleanor Brown sister order book She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it." Eleanor Brown sister book thinking There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that? Eleanor Brown passion love children
