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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“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

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

“الناس ماينفعش معاها غير أسلوب واحد .. الخوف .. من أيام " موسى " عليه السلام وهي بتتحكم بيه .. خدوا على كده خلاص .. كُل نبي كان بينزل للناس .. إلا موسى .. هو الوحيد اللي نزل ل" فرعون " .. لييييييه؟ عشان ماينفعش تكلم الناس .. في مصر تكلم الكبير يظبط الصغير”
― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس

“غريب أمر تلك الفتاة..
تريد أن تكون ملفتة
دون أن يلتف الذباب حولها.”
― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس

“نفس الوجوه التي أرادت أن تخلصنا يوما من الملك.. فصارت هي ألف ملك.”
― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس

“قبل أن تُشجع على البدايات كان يجب أن تفهم أنك لا تستطيع أن ترسم النهايات”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“الإنسان لا يريد أن يكون سعيدًا ياحبيبتي. هو إما أن يكون سعيدًا أو لا يكون؛ إرادته لا دخل لها بالموضوع.”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“أنت تقيمين بينى و بينك الحواجز ، أنت لا تريدين أن تنطلقى ، و أن تتركى نفسك على سجيتها ، لأنك تخشين أن تتعلقى بى ، أن تفنى كيانك فى كيانى ، أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة منى ، ثم تكتشفى كيانك مدلوقا -كالقهوة- فى غرفتى .
و أنا أحبك و أريد منك أن تحبينى ، و لكنى لا أريد منك أن تفنى كيانك فى كيانى ولا فى كيان أى انسان .
ولا أريد لك أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة منى أو من أى انسان .
اريد لك كيانك الخاص المستقل ، والثقة التى تنبعث من النفس لا من الآخرين .
و إذ ذاك – عندما يتحقق لك هذا- لن يستطيع أحد أن يحطمك لا أنا ولا أى مخلوق .
إذ ذاك فقط ، تستطيعين أن تلطمى من يلطمك وتستأنفى المسير .
و إذ ذاك فقط تستطيعين أن تربطى كيانك بكيان الآخرين ، فيزدهر كيانك وينمو ويتجدد ، و إذ ذاك فقط تحققين السعادة فأنت تعيسة يا حبيبتى ، وقد حاولت ولم تستطيعى ، أن تخفى عنى تعاستك…”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“فهمت ان ببلوغها دخلت سجنا ذا حدود مرسومة و على باب السجن يقف أبوها و أخوها و أمها .
و الحياة مؤلمة للسجان و السجينة, السجان لا ينام الليل خوفا من ان ينطلق السجين, خشية أن يخرج على الحدود, و الحدود محفورة حفرها الناس و وعوها و اقاموا من أنفسهم حراسا عليها, و السجينة تستشعر قوى لا عهد لها بها قوى النمو المفاجىء, قوى جارفة تسعى الى الانطلاق, قوى فى جسمها تتطوقها الحدود, و قوى فى عقلها تشلها الحدود, حدود بلهاء عمياء صماء.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح