Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
That's the thing about a human life-there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
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I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
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...
The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.