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“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
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“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
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