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Thanksgiving Love Quote
Thanksgiving was celebrated in the USA this week, so to celebrate we have a love quote about giving thanks for things that you may not feel like giving thanks for – like meeting a few wrong people!
“Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for the gift.”
- Anonymous
How to End a Relationship – for Cowards
Anyone who wants to end a relationship gracefullylessly, here’s the website for you: breakup email automatically generates emails intended to end a relationship – short and to the point, without all that pesky thinking-about-it-and-writing-something-yourself!
Just enter your name and the name of the person you want to break up with. Then choose from the options: why you want to end a relationship, whether you want to stay friends, which clichee you want to trot out and what wishes you have for their future.
Once you end a relationship, maybe you’ll find your new partner for a better, happier relationship at be2 
We jest, actually, we think that if you have to end a relationship, you should have the guts to do so in person!
Love + Kiss Quote
According to this Love Quote, a kiss is a lovely trick to stop words, but only spoken words, of course!
“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”
- Ingrid Bergman
A Happy Life Thanks to Oprah
There is no idiot- proof formula for a happy life, even if some self-help books would have you believe such a thing exists. Neither can you plan every detail of a happy life – after all, happiness is often found in the most unexpected places. Nevertheless, an American blogger has been trying just that: to live a happy life by minutely following the advice of US Queen of Talk Oprah.
Due to the reach of Oprah’s empire, that advice encompasses diet, fashion, design, literature and film tips, as well as relationship advice and wellness-psychobabble. Imagine someone who knows the right diet, the inspiring novel, the perfect outfit and the correct relationship advice for every situation and serves it all up (with a generous helping of inspirational platitudes) on her website, her TV show, her radio show and in her magazine.
The blogger reads the Oprah Magazine and website and watches the Oprah Show. Whenever Oprah says “do this”, “buy that” or “read that”, she does. Her experiences are detailed at Living Oprah. 
It becomes clear that Oprah gives some good advice, but also lots of unnecessary tips and even more that are unrealistic or even contradictory. Oprah preaches „love your self the way you are“, while constantly advocating unattainable perfectionism and doling out diet tips. Oprah is torn between pure materialism and esoteric spirituality (“de-clutter your life!” vs. “buy new clothes, furniture, books, DVDs, keyrings with an Oprah-Logo!”). A lot of advice is time-consuming and expensive to follow. Hence, the cost of Living Oprah is also documented.
As clicheed and trite as Oprah’s advice may often be, the Living Oprah project puts it to the test, questions it, thus giving it meaning. The blog doesn’t just shine a critical light on Oprah’s advice for a happy life, but manages to question the claim that women’s magazines, self help books and lifestyle gurus can help you live a happy life simply by following their advice.
The Living Oprah project was planned as a one-year challenge and the year is coming to an end. We’re looking forward to the conclusions drawn. Will the Living Oprah blogger decide that she’s living a happy life thanks to Oprah? Somehow, we get the feeling she’s already looking forward to living by her own rules again.
Update: there’s now a book out about the Living Oprah experience (see right).
Fascination with Love Quotes
When we talk about love, we usually mean romantic love. But obviously love can be many other things. Sometimes it’s just a fascination with a person. And this week’s love quote is even more fitting because it’s from a man we love (or should we say are fascinated with):
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ”
- David Byrne
