Arden Rose Quotes

Realize that you can’t let the feelings of others make you live less.

Being an adult is realizing that other people are not better or above you.

The release and joy that come from luxury are only felt when you earned it.

Being completely closed off to a philosophy or lifestyle is not a very adult-y thing to do. In fact, it’s an incredibly childish way to look at the world.

Moscow, just past midwinter, and the haze of ten thousand fires rose to meet a smothering sky. To the west a little light lingered, but in the east the clouds mounded up, bruise-colored in the livid dusk, buckling with unfallen snow.

I was so uncertain about how to effectively communicate my thoughts and needs that I ultimately helped people in the hopes that they might notice I needed help, too.

Some might say that makes me antisocial. I say it makes me attentive to my need for alone time.

Most of the people who seem like they have their lives in order are also the people who are great at doing things they don’t want to do.

You're your own best friend in life. Treat yourself with kindess.- Arden Rose

•​Just do whatever it is that you’re second-guessing. Unless the thing you are contemplating doing is meth. Don’t do meth.

Having what you want all the time is a hidden curse. You end up spending your days chasing the best things, only to have the most breathtaking experiences feel…meh. There’s no balance to make the pleasure enjoyable. You didn’t work for it. The release and joy that come from luxury are only felt when you earned it.

My routine just happens to be a large amount of laziness in the a.m. If that's what makes me joyful in my life, then I'm adulting correctly.

Most of the people who seem like they have their lives in order are also the people who are great at doing things they don’t want to do. That’s

No one really knows what they’re doing, and I find a bizarre comfort in that.

So the smells I associate with the Elders are freshly cut garden flower arrangements- roses, lilac and endless sweet peas and the fougère hints of random greenery lavishly added to the vases, in the Constance Spry style. Also, modest shop-bought flowers, particularly daffodils, tulips and freesias, which are such an economical way to brighten a room for that thrifty generation. My scents for the elders are: Lavender by Yardley Blue Grass by Elizabeth Arden Rose in Wonderland by Atkinsons Femme by Rochas Ostara by Penhaligon's Tweed by Lenthéric (A mention of this elicited a big response at the event; it seemed all the women had worn it at some time and had happy associations with it. I do wish they would re-release it in the original tweed-fabric effect box.) The men in this age group are the last of the true British gentlemen, so especially for them: Old Spice St Johns Bay Rum by St Johns Fragrance Company Royal Mayfair by Creed

Just do whatever it is you're second-guessing. Unless the thing you're contemplating doing is meth. Don't do meth."- Arden Rose

I see you,” she said. It was barely a breath. “You are all I see, sometimes. In this horrible place, with the cold and the monsters and the starving. You are a light to me.” She caught at his hand again; she propped herself on one elbow. Her eyes swam with tears. “Please, Batyushka,” she said. “I want only to be close.” “You are mad,” he said. He pushed her hands down and drew away. She was soft and old, rotted with fear and disappointed hopes. “You are married. I have given myself to God.” “Not that!” she cried in despair. “Never that. I want you to see me.” Her throat worked, and she stammered. “To see me. You see my stepdaughter. You watch her. As I have watched you—I watch you. Why not me? Why not me?” Her voice rose to a wail. “Hush.” He laid a hand on the door. “I see you. But, Anna Ivanovna, there is little to see.” The door was heavy. When closed, it muffled the sound of her weeping.

No one pays enough attention to the important things in life. Put your valuable time and energy into the major issues. Like finding a way to genetically engineer miniature elephants to have as domesticated house pets.