Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTLearning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
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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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Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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