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Khaled Hosseini
“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Elizabeth Gilbert
“Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, 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.
'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert
“My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from which it all begins, the seed which holds all the promise and potential, which grows into a tree. Everybody can see that. But only a few can recognize that there is anther force operating here as well-the future tree itself, which wants so badly to exist that it pulls the acorn into being, drawing the seedling forth with longing out of the void, guiding the evolution from nothingness to maturity. In this respect, say the Zens, it is the oak tree that creates the very acorn from which it was born.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert
“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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