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“Send him some love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it. You're just afraid to let go of the last bits of David because then you'll really be alone. But here's what you gotta understand, Groceries. If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot - a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in - God will rush in - and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using David to block that door. Let it go.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“When I sleepwalk
into your room, and pick you up,
and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me
hard,
as if clinging could save us. I think
you think
I will never die, I think I exude
to you the permanence of smoke or stars,
even as
my broken arms heal themselves around you.”
― Galway Kinnell

“Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.......”
― Akshay Dubey

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Mat. 7:7).”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“Infinite Spirit open the way for great abundance for — —. She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life And How To Play It

“fear must be erased from the consciousness.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example: "Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease." Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

“There is no there---there is only here.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“act as if”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Power of the Spoken Word

“We should have signs in the subways and shops “Watch your thoughts!” “Watch your words!”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Collected Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; The Secret Door to Success; The Power of the Spoken Word

“If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“Do not neglect the day of small things, for little beginnings have big endings”
― Florence Scovel Shinn

“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How To Play It

“A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Trust grows at the speed of a coconut tree and falls at the speed of a coconut.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense