Inspirational Parenting Quotes

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen. Look for a partner who is soul food.

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Royale Scuderi is a creative strategist, consultant and writer who specializes in cultivating human potential for happiness, health and fulfillment. Quotes are not just interesting tidbits of wisdom and inspiration, but if we really pay attention to the wisdom they have to offer, if we take the time to truly digest it, absorb it and hopefully act upon it, it can actually make a real difference in the experience of our lives. The way it actually works is the reverse.

You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.

And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.