Cinderella on the Couch Quotes

“It's useless to love a rose and say you don't want to put up with its thorns. To really love a rose is to also love its thorns.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Indeed. It's not easy to be a heroine... But it becomes easier once we start using our magic wand, that little wand that has the power to turn a pumpkin into a beautiful carriage and old rags into a beautiful dress.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Instead of accusing the other person or circumstance and placing the responsibility for your unhappiness in someone else's hands, we should take responsibility and ask ourselves: 'What can I learn from this? How can this help me become a better person?' I believe that people who don't take responsibility for their pain and sadness cannot take the responsibility for their success and joy.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“It's very dangerous to place the responsibility for our happiness on other people or circumstances.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Webster defines the word forgive as to absolve from guilt. Guilt means responsibility. So whenever we say we forgive someone, we're saying that we believe that person to be responsible for our pain and that by our 'divine goodness' we're going to forgive him. If you understand this, then in order to forgive we have to have judged the other person and declared him guilty - i.e., responsible for our unhappiness. Only then can we decide whether we want to pardon him.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Some days I just want to turn to him and scream: "Why did you leave me when I needed you most? Don't you know how you hurt me?”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Forgiving is not about forgetting the old story. It's about giving yourself a chance to write a new story.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“OK, just chill Annie. Remember how the old Asian saying goes: "If a problem has a solution, you have nothing to worry about. And if a problem doesn't have a solution, you have nothing to worry about." But I'm a control-obsessed Westerner, so of course, all I can do is worry.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“No - please - no. I'm having lunch in just a bit and I won't be eating sugar. Not because I want to lose weight. It's just that excess sugar is not good for you. My body is a sacred temple that needs to be taken care of with lots of TLC. Losing weight is just a side effect of the love I feel for my own body. If we want the best of life, we need to give it our best. And it all starts with us!”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“Heroes and heroines don't question their dreams, they see their dreams as a calling for their true path. They just accept them and try to fulfill them. Mainly because they know that it's in this fulfillment that they can find success and a reason for their existence.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“...women nowadays are satisfied with so little; they just don't allow themselves to receive the best. Everything is so much faster.
...she's trying to tactfully tell me that younger women are sluts.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch