Men, Money and Chocolate Quotes

“The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate

“You can’t say you’ve failed to achieve something until you die,’ Bill said. ‘Or until you’ve tried absolutely everything; and you haven’t really tried everything until you’re dead. So you might have given up, but you certainly haven’t failed.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“That is the first, and most important, reason you don’t yet have the life you want,’ Rose explained. ‘Because truly, deep down, you don’t believe you deserve it. You think you’re not good enough.’ Maya swallowed back her tears. ‘Try saying it,’ Rose suggested. ‘Try saying that you deserve to have everything you want.’ Maya opened her mouth. Words formed and hovered on her tongue, waiting for her to speak. But she couldn’t.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“start to notice how hard you are on yourself. This is the beginning. You need to start being more gentle.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“And when people stop focusing on their dreams they become lost in the maze of their minds, wandering around in endlessly repeating circles. Then the colours of life start to dull, and excitement starts to die. Until you’re trapped in a prison of your own making, looking out at life instead of living it.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“When you follow your heart you allow miraculous possibilities to unfold.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate

“It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate

“Yes,’ Rose said. ‘When you’re happy you light up those around you and make the world a better place to be. But when you’re unhappy you spread unhappiness. You may not want to, but you can’t help it. Your sadness just seeps out and into those around you. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it.’ Maya nodded. This she understood. ‘In order to light up the world, you need to make yourself happy first.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“I know you might not want to hear it, dear,’ Rose said gently, ‘but your first lesson, before you do anything else, is to realise that there is nothing wrong with you. To see that you’re absolutely perfect, exactly as you are. This is compassion.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“Life gives everyone challenges, difficult situations they think they don’t want. Conditions like being lonely, broke and overweight. But people push against these things so strongly that they miss the gifts hidden inside them.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“Why are you looking at me like that?’ ‘I’m sorry, dear, looking at you like what?’ ‘As though you know something about me that I don’t.’ ‘Oh, you know it. You just refuse to believe it.’ ‘Believe what?’ ‘That you’re absolutely perfect,’ Rose smiled, ‘exactly as you are: single and struggling and so… sexy. If you only believed that, then your life would begin to unfold into something magnificent.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money, and Chocolate

“False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy.”
― Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate