Your Perfect Year Quotes

“In order to gain new experiences, to expand your horizons, to give fate—or serendipity or whatever you want to call it—a chance. And that only happens if we say yes to things.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“every day, every individual second of someone’s life, was too precious to waste, to smother in care and worry. Life was for living, regardless of how long you had left. For ultimately, no one knew when their last moment would arrive,”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Today, do the exact opposite of what you normally do. And look forward to seeing what happens as a result. Change means changing your ways—only by so doing can you have new experiences that may surprise you. Make a break with your habits, test yourself, expand your horizons! If you usually hold the phone in your right hand, use your left. Do your shopping in a different supermarket and buy different brands, take the bus instead of the car, be particularly friendly to people who usually irritate you. If you eat out, order food you don’t usually eat. Experience the world around you as something completely new, as though you were a different person and not yourself. Enjoy!”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become deeds. Watch your deeds; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Who had ever actually said that you couldn’t have everything you wanted in life? Was it an immutable law? Sure, it was in line with a healthy way of thinking, but was it actually true?”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Your task instead is to think about how you would like your life to be. Make a list of everything, big and small, that you wish for. Success, money, love, a new hobby, ten children . . . Look for pictures in magazines, cut them out, and stick them on some posterboard. Then hang it up where you can easily see it. This is your “vision board.” Lay your tracks into the future. The images will help your subconscious make all your dreams come true! Because: “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” (Seneca). And another: “Wishes are things that we can make come true.” (Johann Wolfgang Goethe).”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Non si possono aggiungere più giorni alla vita,
ma si può aggiungere più vita ai giorni.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Il tuo anno perfetto inizia da qui

“The cards are advising you to lighten up,” she said. “Let go of your cares, don’t hang on to your pain, get rid of all your baggage.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Our energy is guided by the focus of our attention,” she said, telling Lisa what she believed from the innermost depths of her heart. “So when we turn our thoughts to what we want, the probability of attaining it is so much greater than if we’re constantly wrestling with what we don’t actually want.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“That unequivocal feeling of being in love. Of warmth and security, of butterflies in the stomach, of an excess of joy and high spirits, laughter and craziness. And of happiness. Yes, happiness.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“again.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“a person’s fortune was colored by their attitude: optimists experienced good things, pessimists bad, and the universe would give those who expected the worst what they deserved.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“A true northerner ought to be a hardy being, unafraid of storms, possessing at least three oilskin jackets and a sou'wester ready for action.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Dein perfektes Jahr

“Watch your thoughts; thoughts become reality!”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“You know that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair—you expend a lot of energy but you never get anywhere.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“I once read a very comforting thought in a book: when you die, you return to the same state as you were in for millions of years before your birth—you’re physically absent. It’s not a bad thing at all that every one of us must leave this world sometime; we simply return to the universe where our souls have been and will be for the vast majority of time.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Grief”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do, and, mostly, Live. Dalai Lama”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

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― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Don’t worry so much. You know that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair—you expend a lot of energy but you never get anywhere.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“one essential aspect of childcare during her training: to avoid tears and tantrums, don’t allow children to actually lose a game.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“a man to rush things. But what if it wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment fling, but someone he’d known for longer? Hannah tried to ignore the small, malicious voice in her head. It was a crazy notion.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“He scanned the text once again, then sent it off with a nod. Yes, very good. He who hesitates is lost. He liked to deal with things methodically and quickly; productivity of this kind gave him a warm sense of virtue.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“indefinable”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“Sometimes things that seem so horrific that we can’t face them are nevertheless true.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do, and, mostly, Live.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“If it hits home, it’s usually true. And if it’s true, it hits home.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“character, for it becomes your destiny.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
― Charlotte Lucas, Your Perfect Year