[qadarpriestress]

The spirit of sweetness governs my life

[toiich]

La collectionneuse (1967), dir. Éric Rohmer

[qadarpriestress]

When someone asks me what impact I want to have on others, I always say that I live for myself and only for myself. I am not motivated by the desire to impact people nor to inspire people/leave a legacy. I think it is very presumptuous to predefine the impact we will have on others because when you really think about it, who are we to impose our so-called impact upon others? I don't consider myself important enough to assume that I will have an impact on others. My choices in life are motivated by myself, and even if I never end up having a concrete impact on others, at least I will have lived a well lived life.

[aligning-and-attracting]

Having no sense of urgency isn’t normal; there are things you should be handling as soon as they come to you, and there are things you need to be actively aware of and taking care of. By having no sense of urgency, believing a higher power will handle something, ignoring the obvious, or leaving things until the last minute, you make your life significantly more difficult than it would be otherwise. I also think that you have to be able to rely on yourself, and by consistently holding off from doing things, you make yourself unreliable in your own mind. One might think that they fail at everything they do because they’re not skilled enough, but many a time, it’s because they leave things for way too late. Get in the habit of doing things promptly, get in the habit of answering emails and doing work projects/assignments swiftly, get in the habit of asking questions if you're confused, and get in the habit of being able to depend on yourself to get things done and never look back. If you can’t rely on yourself and handle business, you’re missing out on opportunities.



[qadarpriestress]

I have been on a date with 3-4 men with crazy successful careers, and guess what they had in commun? No LinkedIn. It is a common pattern of highly successful people they just don’t have this damn app.

[stuckinapril]

I love the whole 30 is the new 21 trend like yes queen so true. Your 30s are not for having children and settling down. They are for traveling, building your career, and going to the CLUB. Freeze ur eggs if u must I don’t care. Any 30 something year old woman who’s choosing to enjoy her newfound financial stability and not spend it in an unhappy marriage has my wholehearted stamp of approval.

[qadarpriestress]

I cannot overstate how important it is for women to possess things, whether material or immaterial. Let it be your favorite dress, bottles of perfume, a piece of jewelry, linen bedsheets, books, knowledge, degrees, work experience, connections, hobbies, a secret garden that belong to you alone.

Build a life that is unmistakably yours. Form your identity. Explore and refine your taste. Know what moves you, what inspires you. Be your own muse, go to shopping malls and smell new perfumes/try the clothes on instead of getting your inspiration online. A woman without a strong sense of identity risks losing herself in this world.

I remember my mother once saying that she had "nothing." That sentence has stayed with me. Many women were robbed of their identity whether by marrying the wrong man or by being reduced solely to the roles of wife and mother. They were never truly given the opportunity to explore their womanhood in all its depth.

If you are feeling lost in your womanhood, just start to cultivate your taste. Read foreign literature. Treat yourself according to your budget (for instance try to understand what you really enjoy in fashion and you really don’t need to buy anything ) . Explore new hobbies. Invest in your education and your future. If your circumstances allow try new occupations, develop new skills, travel, create, remain curious.

[qadarpriestress]

Life became better when I stopped dating intense and mysterious men and instead started dating funny and goofy men who have a zest for life

[achillesinhighheels]

[qadarpriestress]

I am wearing the sluttiest perfume, string and skirt combined with the most conversative shirt and shoes at work

[qadarpriestress]

Lots of people are too relaxed to see you leave

[allaboutmary]

The shrine of Our Lady of Warwick St, London.

[serpentecarmesim]

today i dreamed of two goddesses — one of love and beauty, the other of destruction and war. they were fighting in the heavens and so humans wanted to make the right choice in whom to venerate so they could achieve heaven. they chose the love goddess thinking her to be softer but finding love to be as harsh as war; and then, in despair, they wondered — so is it war that grants us heaven? the war goddess then answered: all paths lead to heaven because all is good. it is the content of the journey that is different for each and why you struggle so, because you choose for conformity and not for your heart.

[qadarpriestress]

My dreams becoming more and more Venusian (lots of beauty related dreams, romance, etc), the more religious I get

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Found this lovely table in an astrology book

Through the Looking Glass: A Search for the Self in the Mirror of Relationships by Richard Idemon

[sentimentalbeing2001]

Manifesting The Notebook kind of summer romance…

[qadarpriestress]

You never know how signing up for a new class, getting a haircut, attending a party you are too lazy to go to, or applying to a job you think you have no chance at can really shift timelines. You are probably one decision away from catapulting into a new timeline.

[trekbec82]

In my experience you see a few of the really big ones in advance (even if only very very briefly), while others are incredibly easy to see in hindsight but weren't on your radar at all before they happened.

I would have been decapitated if I hadn't reacted exactly as I did when a semi-trailer truck wrote off my Ford Festiva in 2004.

There are several outcomes with varying degrees of horridness that could have eventuated if I'd married the emotionally abusive man I was engaged to in 2008.

I would be brain damaged if I'd ignored the advice of my optometrist (told me to ask for a referral for CT), GP (referred me for scans and then to a specialist), and neurosurgeon (operated) in 2016.

So... yeah. Sometimes you can see the timelines branching in advance, sometimes only in hindsight. Either way you have to make choices and take chances, because if you don't, are you even really living?