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I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
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.
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.