It’s All Maya!

Okay, so another person came up with the name, “Rude-nella”, describing Lunella’s restaurant in Little Italy, but the name is so appropriate when talking about the place, I just had to use it!
We had been walking all day, from the Statue of Liberty to the financial district, over to Ground Zero, Chinatown and finally making […]

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Maya Muses:  Some profound quotes to think about as we continue on this journey through life.

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Agnes Repplier
“Everything we do seeds the future.  No action is an empty one.”
Joan Chittister
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how […]

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Maya Muses: Getting ready to go out and do some serious shopping this afternoon even though it’s suppose to get up to 98° (37° C.) today, I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes by the ever effervescent Carrie Bradshaw!
“I like my money right where I can see it….hanging in my closet.”
Carrie Bradshaw
Sex and […]

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Maya Muses:  I think I have just about every book that was ever written by Kahlil Gibran.  The poetic way he expresses himself about the mundane circumstances of life is anything but to a soul on a quest for more!
On prayer:
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness […]

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I’ve always adored Audrey Hepburn, her beauty, grace, elegance, and even her charming accent was something a bumbling teenager, who had nothing in common with her except for the color of her hair, could possibly dream!  And so I dreamed….
Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.  Sabrina is falling in love with Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart) as he pretends […]

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Maya Muses:  No surprise that men and women remember different quotes from different films; afterall, men are from Mars and women are from Venus!  Is it any wonder then that the films playing at the local cinema theaters on both planets are definitely not the same?  Of course not!

Top 20 Film Quotes For Women

Love means […]

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Maya Muses: I was on the phone with a friend from Paris who asked me when we were planning on going back, (Patrick and I go back and forth every year to Paris) and I told her this year I didn’t know.  “I have several doctor appointments scheduled,” I said…..and then we got to talking […]

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Maya Muses:  One of my favorite quotes and romantic passages comes from Han Suyin in her book The Mountain Is Young.  Enjoy the day with those you love.

“Every day reveals new things.  I had that feeling from the first day I met you, that we were setting out on a journey together. 
I didn’t ask whether […]

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Maya Muses:  Everything in our Universe is energy, and what we are learning more and more scientifically in quantum physics is that the mind is the most powerful source of energy.  Therefore our thoughts actually create our reality.  A reality nonetheless made up of Maya (illusions).
Some of these quotes are extremely powerful; they hold the […]

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The quote I love the best about Paris is Ernest Hemingway’s:
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
His quote captures everything about Paris in just that one sentence, for indeed […]

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