Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love (2006)

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Happiness is the consequence 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 in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

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As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff of it is bad for you.

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They flank me — depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well.

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I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' — the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

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I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

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People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

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I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

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There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

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I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?

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