“Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.”
― The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
― The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
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