“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.”
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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