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#1

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: eat-pray-love, elizabeth-gilbert, inspiration

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#2

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

tags: heartache, love

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#3

“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.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: life

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#4

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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#5

“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

tags: heartbreak, love, mourning

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#6

“In 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.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: love

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#7

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: crying, sorrow

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#8

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: attitude, fate, thoughts

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#9

“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: love

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#10

“I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: heartache, inspirational, relationships

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#11

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

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#12

“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.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: beauty, enjoy-life, life

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#13

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: self-worth

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#14

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: grief, heartbreak, hope

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#15

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

tags: introspection, self-awareness

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#16

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: desire, longing, love

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#17

“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.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: choice, decisions

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#18

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

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#19

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

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#20

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself

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#21

“Some men think because they're afraid to do.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

tags: courage, thought-provoking

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#22

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

tags: inspirational, thought-provoking

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#23

“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly

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#24

“Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die

tags: inspirational, mind, thought-provoking

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#25

“Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending...but no one loved her and so she could keep changing.”
― Jenny Hollowell, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe

tags: thought-provoking

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#26

“Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

tags: thought-provoking

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#27

“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”
― Emma Bull

tags: thought-provoking

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#28

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love

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#29

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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#30

“You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

tags: thought-provoking

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