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Lyndsey DePalma, founder, House of Steep

COLUMN = HEALTHY LIVING

Lyndsey DePalma is the founder of new Arlington, VA tea house and reflexology studio—about the treasure that is tea, the power of reflexology to heal and harmonize, and her entrepreneurial dreams for the future.

Before coming up with the concept for House of Steep, the shop’s creator Lyndsey DePalma wanted something for herself—to relax, and just be, for a while each day.
Not satisfied with any of the existing answers and armed with some entrepreneurial hard-wiring and a respect for natural healing, Lyndsey left her corporate career in human resources to bridge the gap.

A firm believer in present living, this small business owner also publishes her thoughts and ideas on relaxation and a peaceful lifestyle at placidhouse.com.

Since October of 2010, House of Steep has been taking up residence in Lyndsey’s heart and will become the ultimate destination for busy corporate citizens, casual connections, bridal parties, street shoppers, believers in alternative healing, moms and grandmoms, yogis and yoginis, consultants, crafters, lovers, and the rest of us.

For more information, visit www.houseofsteep.com.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe