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Lemon Soda
lemonlu.com
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Lemon Soda is a playground for free spirits and love junkies. A wonderland of inspiration, it is a place for growing, cultivating personal style & finding ways to make life more beautiful! I try to bring you little treasures and trinkets I find on the internet — from beauty to lifehacks — as well as advice and thoughts, partly coming from my Psychology background and partly welling on my life experiences.
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Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules

Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self Respec...

08 jul 11

Love, Confidence & Brilliance

#Trust30 Day 10 — Your Personal Message by Eric Handler To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emer...

09 jun 11

here’s to opening and upward

here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap and to your(in my arms flowering so new) self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain and here’s to silent certainly mountains;and to a disa...

08 jun 11

A Fourfold Adventure

#Trust30 Day 6 — Come Alive Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of...

06 jun 11

10 Places To See

#Trust30 Day 5 — Travel If we live truly, we shall see truly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to...

05 jun 11

How To Pack a (Light) Suitcase!

Do you find yourself sitting on top of your luggage so you can get it to zip shut, only to find you forgot to put your socks in? And what about all the annoying chargers for all our nifty gadgets? Fo...

05 jun 11

How To Make More Time

#Trust30 Day 4 — Post-it Question That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed F...

04 jun 11

Diamantes: Invincible Summer

Diamantes reflect, refract and absorb light. Their natural “fire” comes from the high dispersion of light, and their shine from the total internal reflection found inside them. And so eve...

03 jun 11

Don’t Just Sit There

#Trust30 Day 3 — One Strong Belief It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps...

03 jun 11

Light vs. Dark

#Trust30 Day 2 — Today Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. — Ralph Waldo Emer...

01 jun 11

Enjoy Your Cake

#Trust30 Day 1 — 15 Minutes to Live We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. —Ralph Waldo Emerson You just di...

31 may 11

The Importance of Chispa

To have chispa is to have that certain sparkle, liveliness, charm. It comes through in a smile, the way we talk and move, a facial expression. It shows through when our thoughts and actions are ruled...

27 may 11

50 Quotes From 25 People Who Made History

Inspiration comes and goes, and I like to keep a repertoir of resources I can turn to when I’m running low on it! In no particular order, here are 50 inspiring quotes from 25 individuals who ha...

09 may 11

A Letter to My Body

Dear body, We’ve been through so much in the past 22 years! From excessive sun bathing, freckles, my constantly fluctuating weight, one too many alcohol units, to bi-weekly manicures, and sleep...

06 may 11

What Freddie Mercury Has Taught Me

While Queen dazzled thousands, entertained roaring crowds and created kickass music, I did not yet exist. This is obviously my parents’ fault and I am not too happy about it, but Freddie Mercur...

22 apr 11

The Happiness Paradox

Everything we do is most likely geared towards a goal, and whatever that goal, it ultimately translates in our happiness. And yet, here we are doing our own heads in, turning into productivity machin...

12 mar 11 1 person likes this

A Day on a Post-It

Anyone who knows me knows that making lists is on my top ten list of things I like to do. Sometimes I write them down, others I say them out (which annoys Tom to no end. Oops!), but whatever the case...

19 feb 11 1 person likes this

My Entire Life

One fine day in sunny France, Picasso was sketching in the park, as artists tend to do. He was approached by an excited woman who’d recognized him, “Monsieur Picasso—the great Picasso! It...

26 jan 11

Let’s Start at the Beginning

George Eliot put it best when he said: It is never too late to become who you might have been. The good thing about the present is that you can start NOW regardless of what happened in the past to bu...

18 jan 11

Enter to win Whooga Ugg Boots!

I’m going to go ahead and say it: I’m an ugg boot girl. If you are too, then we are in luck because Whooga ugg boots* are having a giveaway! This is exciting on many levels because: Whoog...

31 oct 10

i am so glad and very

i am so glad and very merely my fourth will cure the laziest self of weary the hugest sea of shore so far your nearness reaches a lucky fifth of you turns people into eachs and cowards into grow our ...

31 oct 10

Dream Coat

Unfortunately, it’s hard to live in the present when you have so many things to look forward to: when it’s winter I can’t wait for summer fun and shorts and light dresses, but when ...

31 oct 10

Step Eight: Worry About the Right Things

Like everyone growing up, I had many teachers I disliked and few that I loved in high school. Mr. S belongs in the second group, as what he taught me went beyond proper grammar and Shakespeare. One d...

09 sep 10 2 people like this

The Fun Theory

Hello my little pinecones! How has everyone been? I’ve been away enjoying my summer with Tom, going on little adventures around Madrid and planning future escapes to England and Amsterdam and P...

04 sep 10 1 person likes this

The One Where You Don’t Need to Explain Yourself

Breathe in and out — you own your life. Explanations are not required.

26 jul 10

Step Seven: Less is More

“Less is more”, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was one of the slogans on my posters the year I ran for Secretary of Advertising many, many moons ago in highschool. I thought it was to the...

24 jul 10

How To Approach Anyone

Often we are under the impression that certain people are superior, unreachable. We forget that we are all humans, each with our own faults and strengths, so when it comes to trying to approach said ...

22 jul 10 1 person likes this

Luana’s Style Signatures

If I were taking one of those magazine ‘What is your style?’ quizzes, I know right off the bat there would be no option for me. I’m not glam rock, definitely not vintage-girly, not ...

20 jul 10

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

I’m trying to get ahead on my 50 Books Challenge (I’ve been bad!) and so I picked up The Bell Jar last week. I finished it in two days but didn’t write about it sooner because that&...

19 jul 10

Sometimes the Smallest Things Take Up the Most Room in Our Hearts

In less than half a week I abandoned lazy summer days in the sun for a job that now takes up most of my time. It was what I’d wanted then, but as the weeks keep pushing by I’m starting to...

18 jul 10

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