Ai os bons velhos tempos! / Ah,the good old days!

Há resmas de homens bons... / A good man isn't hard to find...

...nos livros. :)
...in books. :)

O sítio ideal para um nariz (pelo menos o meu) / The best place for a nose

Sobretudo é melhor que meter o nariz onde não se é chamado! :) 

O verdadeiro desejo da Cinderela / Cinderella's true wish

2 leitoras com livros no colo / 2 women with books on their laps

Émile Vernon

10 doenças baptizadas com nomes literários / 10 medical or psychological disorders named after popular literary characters

Há 10 doenças ou distúrbios psicológicos associados a personagens literários. Pode ser o Síndrome de Peter Pan  para quem teima em não crescer ou o Síndrome de Otello se sofre de ciúmes doentios. Também há síndromes associados a Cinderela, Rapunzel (mete cabelo, claro), Mogli, Dorian Gray (ah a vaidade!) e Alice no País das Maravilhas (associada a alucinações). Saiba tudo AQUI.

As leitoras românticas de Vladimir Volegov / Romantic paintings of women reading

Vladimir Volegov

As leitoras de Laurent Botella / Women reading by Laurent Botella

Laurent Botella

Belo calendário Novembro 2014 com leitora / November 2014 lovely calendar with woman reading

Vladimir Volegov

Os livros são as nossas armas mais poderosas / Books are our most powerful weapons

 

Thomas Dworzak

"Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world".

Malala Yousafzai

(Prémio Noble da Paz 2014)

12 citações sobre trabalhar no que se gosta / 12 quotes about working in what you love

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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs


“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi


“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” – Patanjali


“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” – Steve Jobs


“Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me … I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.” – Stephen King


“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” – Kahlil Gibran


“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” – Judy Collins


“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl S. Buck


“The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.” – Mark Twain


“The people who make it to the top – whether they’re musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos – are addicted to their calling … [they] are the ones who’d be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren’t being paid.” – Quincy Jones


“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson

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Embrulhem meus senhores! / Women's lack of ambition :)

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11 citações sobre a família / 11 quotes about family

“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.” – Rosaleen Dickson

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” – Anthony Brandt

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” – Alex Haley

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” – William D. Tammeus

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank

“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo

“In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.” – Marge Kennedy


“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox 

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Os livros na pintura de Lea Colie Wight / Books painted by Lea Colie Wight

Lea Colie Wight