{"id":1935,"date":"2022-06-21T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianalis.ro\/?page_id=1935"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:50:28","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Welcome to my world!<\/h4>\n<p>I am <strong>Diana Lis<\/strong> \u2014 a writer, traveler, passionate about dance and photography, and, above all, fascinated by the mysteries of life.<\/p>\n<h4>I left my legal career behind to write my own story.<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]It all began in <strong>Oradea &#8211; Romania<\/strong>,<br \/>\nthe city where I was born<br \/>\nand grew up surrounded by<br \/>\nArt Nouveau buildings<br \/>\nand monuments,<br \/>\npalaces and streets<br \/>\nsteeped in history.<br \/>\nA place that showed me,<br \/>\nfrom the very beginning,<br \/>\nthe beauty of the world.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2899&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]I am the little girl who made up stories.<br \/>\nThe teenager who wrote them in silence.<br \/>\nThe woman who forged her own path.<br \/>\nThe traveler who, one day, lost her manuscripts in Egypt.<br \/>\nThe writer who eventually understood that some stories are not given to us to keep only for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are all me.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Life is, above all, magic. And the most beautiful kind of magic is the one that inspires others to believe in their own story.<br \/>\nYou simply have to create your dream, step by step \u2014 just as a writer writes a book, a painter paints a canvas, and a sculptor gives shape to a statue.<br \/>\nI have published five novels, and <strong>Maktub<\/strong> is perhaps the story into which I have poured the most of the way I see life.<br \/>\nAs a mysterious encounter between the choices we make and what seems to have been destined for us.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2896&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2897&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>I am the woman behind the words.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The woman who dances.<\/strong><br \/>\nWho travels.<br \/>\nWho takes photographs.<br \/>\nWho searches.<br \/>\nWho sometimes falls.<br \/>\nWho rises again.<br \/>\nWho changes her mind.<br \/>\nWho loves beauty and mystery.<br \/>\nWho travels thousands of miles<br \/>\nto discover something that, perhaps,<br \/>\nhas always been within her.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]I find myself in the word <strong>Maktub \u2014 \u201cIt is written\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 believing that there are things life places before us, and that we choose how to answer their call.<\/p>\n<h4>I believe this is where everyone\u2019s story begins.<br \/>\nYour story.<\/h4>\n<p>The moment you stop living according to other people\u2019s expectations and begin to ask yourself:<\/p>\n<h4>Who am I, beyond all the roles I play?<br \/>\nWhat makes me feel alive?<br \/>\nWhat story do I want to leave behind?<\/h4>\n<p>I don\u2019t have all the answers.<br \/>\nPerhaps I don\u2019t even want to.<br \/>\nI tell stories that may inspire you to find your own, and I want what I create to make you pause for a moment and ask yourself what your own voice is saying.<br \/>\nPerhaps the story of your own life began long ago, without you even realizing it.<br \/>\nPerhaps you have wandered through a few chapters.<br \/>\nPerhaps you have spent too long living in a story written by someone else.<br \/>\nOr perhaps you simply feel that somewhere, beyond the life you know, another part of you is still waiting to be discovered.<br \/>\nI invite you to discover it.<br \/>\nTo listen to its call.<br \/>\nTo follow its thread.<br \/>\nTo have the courage to change its course when it no longer reflects who you are.<br \/>\nTo live it with all that you are.<br \/>\nAnd, little by little, to become your own story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Lis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2196 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"57\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo-82x60.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.dianalis.ro\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/diana-lis-logo.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 57px) 100vw, 57px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2903&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to my world! I am Diana Lis \u2014 a writer, traveler, passionate about dance and photography, and, above all, fascinated by the mysteries of life. I left my legal career behind to write my own story. 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