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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.

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Anna Pavlova

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Avenida Margarita

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Robert Frost

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Magical

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan