Eat, Pray, Love

somebody else’s life with perfection.

that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of some

was the administrator of my own rescue

“I love you, I will never leave you, I will always take care of you

that my anger, my sadness and my shame would all creep back eventually, escaping my heart, and occupying my head once more. I knew that I would have to keep dealing with these thoughts again and again until I slowly and determinedly changed my whole life

Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self

If you feel lightened, it was an angel

you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company

he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils

We get seduced by our own mantras (I’m a failure . . . I’m lonely . . . I’m a failure . . . I’m lonely . . . ) and we become monuments to them