I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
("Eat, Pray, Love")
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Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear 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. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
Elizabeth Gilbert
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
Elizabeth Gilbert
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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