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.
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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