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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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inspiration
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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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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love
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pray
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
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love
elizabeth-gilbert
pray
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You have no idea how strong my love is!
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love
elizabeth-gilbert
pray
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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life
eat-pray-love
elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
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love
elizabeth-gilbert
pray
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
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enlightenment
writing
success
life
wisdom
elizabeth-gilbert
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Brandi L. Bates |
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"How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt about their relevancy - If I have done nothing else in this life, then at least I have raised my children well. But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you step out? Where do you sit at the reunion? How do you mark time's passage without the fear that you've just fritted away your time on earth without being relevant? You'll need to find another purpose, another measure by which to judge whether or not you have been a successful human being. I love children, but what if I don't have any? What kind of person does that make me? Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course." Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous."
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elizabeth-gilbert
virginia-woolf
memoir
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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"The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schools of thought over the centuries have found different explanation for man's apparently inherently flawed state. Taoists call it imbalance, Buddism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God, and the Judeo-Christian tradition attributes all our suffering to original sin. Freudians say that unhappiness is the inevitable result of the clash between our natural drives and civilization's needs. (As my friend Deborah the psychologist explains it: "Desire is the design flaw.") The Yogis, however, say that human discontentment is a simple case of mistaken identity. We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: "You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
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philosophy
epictetus
yogic-path
eat-pray-love
elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.
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money
wealth
inspiration
motivation
success
brandi-l-bates-quotes
brendon-burchard
ceo
entrepreneurship
entrepreneur
entrepreneurship-quotes
investments
self-help-inspirational
elizabeth-gilbert
chess
personal-development
ownership
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Brandi L. Bates |
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Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions.
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awe
elizabeth-gilbert
adventure-travel
parenting
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Leigh Ann Henion |
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Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?
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elizabeth-gilbert
life-philosophy
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
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elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight.
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sleepless-nights
elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
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prayer
elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Somone makes a promise, and then they break it. A play gets good notices, and then it folds. A marriage looks strong, and then they divorce. For a while there's no war, and then there's another war. If you get too upset about it all, you become a stupid, unhappy person--and where's the good in that?
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perseverance
change
allowing-change
broken-promises
city-of-girls
elizabeth-gilbert-quotes
elizabeth-gilbert
presence
surrender
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Dessutom kunde jag inte glomma vad min syster en gang hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn ar som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man maste vara bergsaker pa att det ar sa man vill ha det innan man satter igang.
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elizabeth-gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven.
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spirit
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Elizabeth Gilbert |