Maya Kachroo-Levine

Wednesday was the second year in a row that the White House observed #BigBlockOfCheeseDay, and this year, they hosted a virtual open house.

Networking music is the love child from the affair between Dido’s first album and the elevator music from “Night at the Roxbury.”

Don’t you think anxiety’s just kind of trendy right now? Answer: Just because something’s popular, doesn’t mean it’s suddenly tolerable – look at Justin Bieber.

I treat my body as a temple. It is holy, it is clean and it is full of goodness.

Red lipstick, the Beatles, thank you notes, music festivals.

I am grateful for everything I experience in this lifetime. I overcome, I grow, and I prosper all the time. My abundant blessings, as well as my difficulties, all make me better, stronger, and more alive.

I am the architect of my life; I build its foundation and choose its contents.

We’re so caught up in this idea that we have to protect our independence, that we’ve quelled our traditional instincts, because we no longer think we’re allowed to have them. (Unless you genuinely don’t have those traditional instincts, which is totally fine too.)

If you’ve ever been left hoping that someone would get his act together for you, you’ve had a Christopher.

Relying on a relationship to make us happy is putting all our eggs in one basket. What happens when the basket breaks? If our relationship is what’s sewing our happiness together, then what’s to stop us from unraveling?

Five Guys: You’re the kind of person who loves the free samples at Trader Joe’s.

Make fewer plans.

You won’t be able to make rent because of all the parking tickets you’ve accumulated.

We are hyper aware of things in our relationship that will be a problem down the road, because we are trained to think that serious problems in a relationship are inevitable.

Among its new 2014 entries, the AP Stylebook added the words “buffalo wings” and “vegan.” The Dems lost the Senate. The Palin family got into a bar fight. We lost Robin Williams, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and 298 lives on Malaysia Airlines Flight #17. Ellen DeGeneres ordered pizza at the Oscar’s. Brad Pitt handed out the plates and napkins.

Stop waiting for someone to change. (Start accepting that you can’t control people.)

Yet now, we think we’re the victims. We are burdened by the everyday struggles of adjusting to real life, and it’s hard. It makes us impatient. It makes us selfish. And with this negative energy pushing into our psyche, we forget to be grateful.

I’m too attached to how good my hair looks in this picture to let it go.