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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

    A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

    A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #2
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “the beauty of doing nothing”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #4
    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E.B. White

  • #5
    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #8
    Walker Percy
    “You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
    Walker Percy, The Second Coming
    tags: life

  • #9
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #10
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #11
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #12
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #15
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #16
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #18
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #19
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #20
    Kathleen Tessaro
    “If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”
    Kathleen Tessaro

  • #21
    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    Richelle Mead, Frostbite

  • #22
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #23
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “When love is not madness it is not love.”
    Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  • #24
    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #25
    Charlie Huston
    “One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”
    Charlie Huston, Already Dead

  • #26
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

  • #27
    “There is a desire within each of us,
    in the deep center of ourselves
    that we call our heart.
    We were born with it,
    it is never completely satisfied,
    and it never dies.
    We are often unaware of it,
    but it is always awake.

    It is the Human desire for Love.
    Every person in this Earth yearns to love,
    to be loved, to know love.
    Our true identity, our reason for being
    is to be found in this desire.

    Love is the "why" of life,
    why we are functioning at all.
    I am convinced
    it is the fundamental energy
    of the human spirit.
    the fuel on which we run,
    the wellspring of our vitality.

    And grace,
    which is the flowing,
    creative activity, of love itself,
    is what makes all goodness possible.

    Love should come first,
    it should be the beginning of,
    and the reason for everything.”
    Gerald May, Living in Love

  • #28
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #29
    Ellen Bass
    “to love life, to love it even
    when you have no stomach for it
    and everything you've held dear
    crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
    your throat filled with the silt of it.
    When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
    thickening the air, heavy as water
    more fit for gills than lungs;
    when grief weights you like your own flesh
    only more of it, an obesity of grief,
    you think, How can a body withstand this?
    Then you hold life like a face
    between your palms, a plain face,
    no charming smile, no violet eyes,
    and you say, yes, I will take you
    I will love you, again.”
    Ellen Bass

  • #30
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey



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