- 'To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.'
- Kalos kai agathos - The singular balance of the good and the beautiful (Greek)
- When I get lonely these days, I think: 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's person or emotion as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
- In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
- 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. 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 they leave. And thank God for it.
- 'But I love him.' 'So love him.''But I miss him.''So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.'
- If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot - a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in - God will rush in - and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed.
- Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. You gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.
- There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? and Who's in charge? Everything else is manageable. But those two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering.
- And love is complicated. But still human beings must try and love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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