The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
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TULSI GABBARD I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in lif... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfu... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in m... JAMES JOYCE I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. I told my kids that I don't have the education that they have right now. I didn't have the freedom t... JAMES SUONG Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of ti... JAYSON ENGAY Love is when you find something so great, so . . . necessary, that it becomes more important to y... DAN WELLS Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the... MARY CHOLMONDELEY I'm living with every step. 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at the heart of effective living. When y... WAYNE DYER Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you... WAYNE DYER Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When y... WAYNE DYER Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you... WAYNE DYER I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meani... ALBERT SCHWEITZER In the field of business, you are a hunter. For sure you will not be successful all the time when yo... OSCAR BIMPONG I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am. JEFFREY EUGENIDES I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when i... KATHLEEN GLASGOW We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It ... KIKI DEE He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL To contribute to the world in your own way, live a life that inspires other to live their lives in t... LORRIN L. LEE You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you... PAUL FEIG There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves... NORM COLEMAN It was nice to see the setting of college before I actually entered. You learn to live on your own, ... JULISSA VENTURA
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do ab... ELIZABETH GILBERT My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with peopl... ELIZABETH GILBERT Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken. ELIZABETH GILBERT You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something ... ELIZABETH GILBERT I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might t... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in... ELIZABETH GILBERT God dwells within you, as you. ELIZABETH GILBERT Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. 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ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic... ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-... ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus... ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be... ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin... ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th... ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p... ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ... ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can... ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w... ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express... ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou... ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,... ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that... ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali... ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath... ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv... ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ... ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy... ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some... ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t... ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g... ELIZABETH GILBERT