A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
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.
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.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
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. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.
I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
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