Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love (2006)

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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

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Well, just remember—all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

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When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?

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The Bhagavad Gita — that ancient Indian Yogic text — says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

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Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

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Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

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I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

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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.

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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

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You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

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Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

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There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone, that's how the light of God gets in.

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Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship — a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

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Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

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Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

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The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

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Everything really is going to be ok (and if not ok, then at least comic).

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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is—I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

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