Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco ChanelRead
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Interpretation
Our thoughts shape our reality, so it's essential to maintain mental clarity and stability.
Coco Chanel's quote reminds us that our thoughts and perceptions fundamentally influence our experiences. By emphasizing the importance of maintaining a sound mind, she encourages us to be mindful of our mental state and the impact it has on our lives, suggesting that losing control of our thoughts can lead to chaos in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about maintaining positivity during challenging times.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up β many people feel small, because theyβre small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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