There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do is look around." She motioned to the door the other women had disappeared through, and to the world at large. "A good deal of people, mostly women, spend their entire lives in this state. It's a sort of half-death. But if you recognize this, you can fix it.. You focus on bliss. Small pleasures. Fill your day with as many as you can fit into twenty-four hours. You devote every possible moment not to fulfilling another person-a man-but yourself."- Suzanne" Sounds hedonistic"- Joanna"But once you can do this, you start attracting everyone to you. You dont need compare yourself to some other girl, no matter how young or firm or perky she is... Trust me. A woman like this, one at her best? We're the color of the world. We're the light and the beauty. So focus on your pleasure, and the man you want can't help but realize..that he may be a prince..but your a goddess.- Suzanne. Vicki Pettersson
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This passage from "The Lover" by D. H. Lawrence tells of a woman who has something very special, and she's made a conscious decision to own it and take the best possible care of it. The idea is that we can be so full of life filled with joy and constantly achieving things we want, but we can take it back and look at the bigger picture and realize there's only one thing that's really important. When you're living in bliss, when you're constantly having fun, when you're surrounded by people who care about you, when you're constantly surrounded by beautiful things that make you feel good about yourself - when you're constantly feeling beautiful - then your true desires will be connected with this life in a way that's much more fulfilling than any other kind of life.

Source: City Of Souls

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