Quotes About Reflection

Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The

She remembered a line from Montaigne, something she had read years ago, which had always stayed with her, and which now felt horribly pertinent: "These are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

And try not to make a habit of getting engaged in the first place, Vivvie. It can leade to marriage if you're not careful.

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan

I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking. My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: No deal, babe.

Anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons. And a shared private heaven can quickly descend into a failed private hell.

And I do want to assure you: I'm aware that many things were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.

I want to have a lasting experience of God," I told him. "Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears".

Take me someplace where we can be silent together." ? Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?

Just remember- all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

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.

This was simply not enough hours. This left far too many remaining hours free, and free hours were dangerous. Free hours created too much opportunity for examining the disappointments she was meant to be grinding under her boot heel.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

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's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

So sadness is a place? Sometimes people live there for years

Dios vive en ti, como vives tu y es exactamente como eres tu

Die Leute meinen, ein Seelenfreund sei jemand, der perfekt zu einem passt, und genau das wünschen sich alle. Aber ein wirklicher Seelenfreund ist ein Spiegel, ist der Mensch, der dir alles zeigt, was dich hemmt, der dir zeigt, wer du bist, damit du dein Leben ändern kannst. Ein wahrer Seelenfreund ist wahrscheinlich der wichtigste Mensch, den du je treffen wirst, weil er deine Mauern niederreißt und dich ohrfeigt, bis du aufwachst.

Un día de éstos vas a recordar esta época de tu vida como un dulce momento de tristeza. Entenderás que, estando "de duelo y teniendo roto el corazón, estás en el mejor sitio posible para cambiar tu vida. En un hermoso lugar dedicado a la devoción y en un estado de gracia. Vive este momento minuto a minuto. Deja que las cosas se arreglen solas