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Writer and photographer living life in transit. A tad obsessed with Facebook hacks, I wrote a novel on how social media influences our offline relationships. In 2016 I co-founded NOWA, an agency dedicated to the Y Generation.
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134 quotes curated by Ioana Cristina Casapu:

“Even when I’m dead,
I’ll swim through the earth
like a mermaid of the soil,
just to be next to your bones.”
— Jeffrey MCDaniel
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying
Tagged: Silence, Psychologists, purpose, Positivity
“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.”
— Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
Tagged: Refuge, Happiness, Psychologists, Mantra, Nature, Soul Searching
“We want to hear, we long to hear, ‘I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.’ Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as ‘I didn’t do anything wrong myself, but it happened on my watch, so, well, I guess I’ll take responsibility.’ That doesn’t cut it.”
— Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Tagged: Mistakes, Psychologists, Responsibility, Awareness
“Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Tagged: Drama, strength, Compassion, Guilt, Trauma, Suffering, Psychologists, Family
“Work/life integration seems to me a better goal than balance. Balance suggests that our lives are in two parts. The more mindful we are, the less we compartmentalize our lives.”
— Ellen J. Langer, Mindfulness
Tagged: Mindfullness, Balance, Work, Decisions, Architecture Of Happiness, Psychologists
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
— Virginia Satir, The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond
Tagged: Family, Survival, therapy, Psychologists, hugs, Love, Growth, Positivity
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play”
— Erik Erikson, Psychology Of Religion
Tagged: Life, Psychologists, Balance, Love, Work, play
“For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.”
— Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Tagged: willpower, strength, Psychologists, Life Is A Journey
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Tagged: Power, Introverts, Positivity, Psychologists