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“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“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 is 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. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" �� a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared �� most of all �� to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“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.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
― Tagore, Rabindranath

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
― Stephen Richards

“Men invented money Women invented mutual aid”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Do ants get headaches?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon is public outrage. Outrage blocked the Yuccan Dam, ousted Nixon, and in part, terminated the monstrosities in Vietnam. But outrage is unwieldy to manufacture and handle. First, you need scrutiny; second, widespread awareness; only when this reaches a critical mass does public outrage explode into being. Any stage may be sabotaged. The world’s Alberto Grimaldis can fight scrutiny by burying truth in committees, dullness, and misinformation, or by intimidating the scrutinizers. They can extinguish awareness by dumbing down education, owning TV stations, paying ‘guest fees�� to leader writers, or just buying the media up. The media—and not just The Washington Post—is where democracies conduct their civil wars.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Человек думает, что добывает деньги для себя. Но в действительности он добывает их из себя. Жизнь устроена так, что он может получить немного денег в личное пользование только в том случае, если произведет значительно больше для кого-то другого. А все, что он добывает для себя, имеет свойство странным образом просачиваться между пальцев" �� (.....) "Причина, по которой люди не понимают природу денег, проста, - О них разрешается говорить только в рамках карго-дискурса. Речь идет не о том, что жизнь человека перерабатывается в непонятную субстанцию, а о том, какая валюта перспективней �� евро или юань. Серьезные люди о другом не говорят и не думают."
"�� Естественно, �� сказал я. �� Человек стремится к деньгам, потому что иначе он умрет с голоду. Так уж жизнь устроена.

�� Слова правильные, �� согласился Энлиль. �� Но я бы чуть поменял их порядок. Тогда изменится акцент.

�� А как надо?

�� Жизнь устроена таким образом, что человек умрет с голоду, если станет стремиться к чему-то кроме денег. ”
― Victor Pelevin, Empire V

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”
― Jason Mraz