There are four Zodiac signs that will be the happiest in 2018 – is your sign one of them?

Zodiac signs are quite popular for millions of people across the globe, and it is believed they can foretell many aspects of your personality as well as the energy surrounding your current situation. For this year there are four signs in particular that are predicted to have a very happy 2018, is your sign one of them?

#1 Gemini

2018 will be the year Geminis find their independence. Independence has always been a deep desire and motive for you, and we all know how hard you’ve worked on it, however you haven’t always been able to completely rely on yourself in the past. For those Geminis who value their freedom and self-reliance, this year you will finally find what you have been searching for. This beautiful new source of independence will brighten your days and bring more happiness to your life than you believed to be possible. Use the energy of this year to your advantage by working on your self-esteem; believing that you are good enough, absolutely perfect, just the way you are. Feeling that you are enough will give you the momentum you need to attract all of the resources you need to succeed, and succeed you will.

#2 Leo

In 2018 Leos will truly believe in themselves and be given a confidence that comes from a deep knowing within their hearts. While you often try to stay humble and keep your ego in check, your role as king of the jungle will be seen by those around you this year. Focus on the present moment, let go of the past and and take one step at a time. Follow your heart, the energy of the universe has seen your pure desires and wishes to make your dreams a reality. Prioritize your time and focus on what really matters, don’t be distracted by the obstacles. Keep your eye on the prize and use the energy empowering you this year to be all you can be.

#3 Libra

Libras will finally find peace and serenity in 2018, and this great relief will bring them a deep happiness. The past year or two may have been chaotic and uncertain, but you’ve earned your rest and 2018 will deliver it to you. You’ve learned your lessons from the past and become a stronger version of you, now it’s time to soak up the peaceful vibes and relax. This year’s tranquility can lay a great foundation for future peace and relaxation if you make a solid effort to integrate some new and beneficial habits into your life; Yoga, exercise, reading positive and empowering books, volunteering at a charity. You can maintain your serenity if you remember your past lessons and stay rooted in your heart while embracing your newfound joys of this year. Enjoy as much relaxation as you can, this energy will easily flow to you and allow you peace in your life.

#4 Sagittarius

2018 is a year of new and wonderful opportunities for Sagittarius. Some big moves are on the horizon, and while at first you may seem hesitant to embrace them due to the amount of change you just experienced in 2017, once you realize their value you will take as many as you can. Carpe Diem; seize the day, and you won’t regret it. New beginnings will be all around you, and these new opportunities will give you a passion and renewed faith in life. It may have been some time since you truly felt this feeling of hope, and everyone around you will smile as they see it return to you.

See Also: Your Ideal Bedtime, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Source: https://www.davidwolfe.com/zodiac-signs-happiest-2018/

She’s A Queen.

Throughout life, we often have experiences of dating many different kinds of people. We can feel that some are too needy or clingy, while some can be too indifferent according to our own personal needs. Some make you the center of their entire world and some become the center of yours. But very rarely we happen to meet a girl who stands out from all of them; a woman you know in your heart to be right for you. She’s kind, considerate and a great match in intimacy, passion and commitment, all of which are needed to create a satisfying relationship (Sternberg, 1985).

If you were ever lucky enough to meet one of them, you must have noticed these signs:




1. She inspires you to reach your true potential and to achieve great things without being demanding. She doesn’t force you to do this, but she encourages you, believes in you, and she trusts you enough to know that you’ll make the right decisions.

2. She doesn’t play childish games in order to make you jealous. Her actions are not based in insecurities about your relationship. She knows what she’s worth and she doesn’t feel the need to prove it to you or to anyone, it can be felt.

3. She doesn’t act like the world revolves around her. She takes care of her own needs while being sensitive and kind to the needs of those around her. She wants love and respect from you and she’s willing to offer you the same. She won’t expect you to suppress your own desires to try and keep her happy every moment of the day. She accepts you for who you naturally are.

4. She doesn’t need you to be present in her life 24/7. She understands that you’re both two independent individuals who have lives outside of this relationship, and that this is healthy. You both give each other enough space and time to invest in your friends, family and career.

5. You’ve never felt anxious about taking her to meet your friends or even your parents. You’re confident that she can carry and present herself well and interact with various kinds of people. She’s full of love and this makes it easy for her to have meaningful conversations with your parents. Then when she’s with you and your friends, she can respectfully let loose and enjoy a good time.




6. She knows how to take care of herself. She never wanted a relationship just so she could depend on someone for all kinds of physical, financial and mental support. No, she was in this to enjoy your company as an equal, to split all the bills, and to make sure that one person in the relationship isn’t being over-burdened.

7. Her social media presence is never something that she needs to hide or is embarrassed about. She knows how to present herself successfully in front of people, whether it’s in person or on a computer screen.

8. She is never shy in the bedroom. She communicates her needs openly; if there’s something that she likes or does not like, she’ll come right out and say it by using ‘I’ statements and expressing her own feelings and needs, rather than laying blame. She’ll express her needs in a gentle yet direct way, making awkward sexual situations a thing of the past. She doesn’t allow your relationship’s intimacy or passion to be hidden and never talked about. She’s mature enough to accept it as a completely normal and healthy part of your relationship, a part that keeps the spark alive and that fosters a greater love between the both of you.




9. She has strong and kind opinions on almost every topic and she’ll never shy away from expressing them just to avoid arguments or to keep everyone happy. She’s a strong woman and when she knows something good, she openly shares it, without forcing others to agree with her. This certain quality enables her to inspire those around her, she speaks from the heart. She’s open to discussions and disagreements, and is able to hear both sides of every story.

10. If you have a fight or an argument, she won’t try to end your relationship. Rather she uses non-violent communication to understand your needs, and to express her own in a gentle and non-critical way. She values peace more than being right all of the time, and isn’t afraid to put a conversation on pause until the both of you can cool down and resume at a calmer time.

11. She is sure about her purpose in life. She has spent time getting to know her own heart and psychology. When she has a goal, you can be sure she will give it her all and won’t be affected by any obstacles that come her way.

12. You feel like the luckiest guy in the world when you’re with her, because the one thing you’re sure of is that someone as amazing as her wouldn’t just date any person. She is a strong independent woman and she isn’t afraid of being alone – so she must really like you if she has chosen to share her life with you!

See Also: The Kind Of Woman You Are According To Your Sleeping Position

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. At eighteen, he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC.




Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato’s death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples’ concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Aristotle’s views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his works.

His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle’s philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues – Cicero described his literary style as “a river of gold”

Here are 40 of Aristotle’s most renowned quotes that can make you think and can help change your life for the better:

1) “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

2) “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

3) “I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

4) “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

5) “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”




6) “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

7) “Hope is a waking dream.”

8) “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

9) “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

10) “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

11) “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

12) “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

13) “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

14) “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

15) “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

16) “A friend to all is a friend to none.”

17) “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

18) “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”

19) “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”

20) “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”




21) “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

22) “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

23) “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

24) “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

25) “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

26) “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”

27) “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

28) “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

29) “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

30) “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

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31) “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”

32) “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

33) “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”

34) “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

35) “Nature does nothing uselessly.”

36) “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

37) “Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

38) “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

39) “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

40) “The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle

http://www.thinkinghumanity.com/2015/03/40-aristotle-quotes-that-will-make-you-think-and-can-change-your-life.html

One of the best things about Carl Jung was the fact that he was a deep philosophical thinker who examined all aspects of the self when writing about the human experience. As you will see in the quotes below, Jung was clear on the notion that we are spiritual beings, and that having a spiritual relationship with oneself truly helps us to understand the deeper aspects of who we are.




For some, these ideas translate into religion; the practice of learning from other great spiritual teachers through reading, listening to follower’s interpretations during sermons, and following a set of rules while finding solace in the existence of something greater than yourself. But the problem with these forms of spirituality is that they often do not require an individual to take an in-depth look within themselves and their hearts; at their own psychology and getting to know the core of who they are (and also who they are not).

According to www.cgjungpage.org: “Carl Jung was one of the creators of modern depth psychology, which seeks to facilitate a conversation with the unconscious energies which move through each of us. He contributed many ideas which continue to inform contemporary life: complex, archetype, persona, shadow, anima and animus, personality typology, dream interpretation, individuation, and many other ideas. He had a deep appreciation of our creative life and considered spirituality a central part of the human journey.”

In reading the quotes in this article, an even deeper appreciation for Jung and his work can be gained, as we uncover conscious themes that were apparent throughout his wonderful teachings. He was clearly a person who thought deeply on life, who took his own practice of meditation seriously and developed a beautiful and intimate knowledge of his inner being.

Here are 20 quotes from Carl Jung to inspire you and to provide much to reflect on.




1. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”

2. “Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.”

3. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

4. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

5. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

6. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

7. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

8. “If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.”

9. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

10. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”




11. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

12. “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

13. “Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.”

14. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

15. “Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul.”

16. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

17. “What you resist, persists.”

18. “A dream is a small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens up to that primeval cosmic night that was the soul, long before there was the conscious ego.”

19. “We may think that we fully control ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that we have absolutely no idea about.”

20. “Everything about other people that doesn’t satisfy us helps us to better understand ourselves.”

Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/25/20-profound-quotes-by-carl-jung-that-will-help-you-to-better-understand-yourself/

“If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.” ~ Diego Rivera

I know you love her.

If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be with her. But since you’re only a human being with variable emotions, you might be inclined to love her in all the wrong ways.

A healthy, happy relationship can transform into a destructive one if you treat her less than how she deserves to be treated.




Nonetheless, I hope you try to love her right. I hope you cast every ray of awareness upon your love for her. I hope you know that awareness is what keeps a relationship strong.

I want you to remember how she looked when you first laid eyes on her. She was everything you longed for. Be it her beauty, her wild nature, her sense of humor or her independence, there’s something about her you haven’t found in anyone else.

And what floored you the most was her completeness.

If you love her, keep her this way. Keep her beautiful, keep her wild, keep her complete.

While she’s the master of her own fate, I wish you understood that you play a major role in her life. How you treat her determines how she views herself—you can make her shine or make her feel lost. She’s a statue in your hands and she only hopes to be held with vigilance.

If you love her, don’t destroy her.

Know that she was destroyed before and another destruction isn’t what she’s aiming for. If she’s with you, know that she has stepped over her fear and insecurities to be with you. She has stepped over her past and decided to give love another chance. She has entrusted you with the health of this relationship—and with her heart.

Don’t let her down.

You destroy her the moment you think you know her. She’s not a book you will eventually finish. She’s something yet to be discovered—so live every day as if you’re meeting her for the first time.

Be present. Nothing destroys her more than your emotional absence. You can sit with her all day long and not really be there, yet you can be so far away and be completely present.




Stimulate her thoughts, her emotions, her being. Dive into her soul like you’d dive into an ocean.

Know that you’ll wreck her if she ever felt you need her rather than want her. You’ll destroy every inch of her if you only love her when loneliness creeps up on you. Because she seeks your love in all moments, not just when your fears and insecurities strike.

I know that your own past sufferings may have destroyed you. But don’t love her just so she can carry your emotional baggage with you. Don’t love her if you only want her to fix you. Know that she will, with time, without you even knowing.

Her love and existence will heal every part of you. But if you are with her solely to fill the emptiness inside you, she will know—and it will destroy her.

And remember, she doesn’t want to be fixed either. Maybe she opened up to you and told you about her painful past. Perhaps you know the exact number of pieces she was turned into. But she didn’t tell you so you would fix her—she only told you so you can know what she endured and how it made her who she is today.

She wants you to acknowledge that your actions toward her—actions motivated by love, understanding and patience—are what matter.




Don’t treat her like a broken woman. She is complete with all her pieces, even though they may still be scattered everywhere. Embrace them with her—just don’t add to them. Make her see why she went through destructive relationships in the past. Make her realize that she went through the “worst” so she could appreciate the “better” that you are.

If you love her, love her with all her flaws and insecurities. She is as imperfect as you are and she only hopes to share that imperfection with you. She wants to undress her soul in front of you and be utterly herself.

She wants to be the same way with you that she is in the mirror—crazy, wild and free. If you’re not ready to accept her as she is, you will destroy her.

If you love her, build her up because she will be doing the same for you. Know that whatever effort you put in, she will be putting in double.

If you show her the moon, she’ll show you the entire galaxy.
If you take her to a well, she’ll introduce you to the ocean.
If you treat her right, she’ll love you more.
If you love her well, she’ll never forget you.

Author: Elyane Youssef