“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth”
― Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
― Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
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“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.”
― City of Bones
― City of Bones
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