I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIn desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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I said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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