“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”
― Love in the Afternoon
― Love in the Afternoon
“Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.”
― Born at Midnight
― Born at Midnight
“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― All Rivers Flow to the Sea
― All Rivers Flow to the Sea
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