The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.
Interpretation
The relationship you have with yourself is crucial and influences all other aspects of your life.
Diane Von Furstenberg emphasizes the significance of self-relationship as the foundation for all other relationships and personal endeavors. By nurturing a positive and understanding relationship with oneself, individuals not only gain self-awareness but also empower themselves to intentionally design and craft their life's path, even if it requires effort and dedication.
In practice
During a motivational speech advocating for self-improvement, you can quote this to highlight the importance of self-relationship.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *Sheβs a stubborn little brat.*
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
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