“When all of our thoughts and feelings relating to death are as accepted and appreciated as those connected to youth and love and passion for life, we will live in a world filled with harmony, equality, and endless creative solutions to problems we now consider hopeless.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Problems are opportunities waiting for the touch of your appreciation.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“To listen, to truly see someone without judgment or labels or aspirations of fixing their problems, if even for a moment, is the greatest measure to which you can care for them.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There are a million and one reasons why you shouldn’t lean into an interest, a relationship, a problem. And there is one reason why you should. Love. It heals the relationship, enhances the interest, and solves the problem.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
This could be applied to sour behavior and tantrums (adult, adolescent, or those thrown by a two-year-old). But good, wonderful, blissful things can also be brought to zero when starved of attention. If you want to make a difference in the world, give the latter more (attention) and the former less. “The surest way to […]
“Obstacles are not obstructions. They are opportunities for creative thinking.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Control is an illusion and the only choice we ever really have is in our perception of a problem, person, or situation.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The way to solve a problem… In conception: make it bigger. In practice: break it into pieces.” -AmyJalapeño.com (Inspired by David R. Dow’s TED talk)
