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“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.”
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