Eat, Pray, Love
I really love this book. So I had to pull out some of the quotes that I identify with most, for my own reference and amusement.
"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."
"...longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness. It's kind of like fantasizing about having sex with your favorite movie star while you're having sex with your other favorite movie star."
"Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so you can seat a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise."
"This panic I felt at age ten was nothing less than a spontaneous and full-out realization of mortality's inevitable march...my sense of helplessness was overwhelming...I wanted to force the entire universe to stop in its tracks until I could get a grip on myself. This might have been the beginning of what my dear friend Richard from Texas called my 'control issues'. The closer I watched time, the faster it spun."
"Some of us are hardwired for anxiety about mortality."
"The word amok, as in 'running amok,' is a Balinese word describing a battle technique of suddenly going insanely wild again one's enemies... the Europeans were frankly terrified by this practice."
"i have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion."
"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."
"...longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness. It's kind of like fantasizing about having sex with your favorite movie star while you're having sex with your other favorite movie star."
"Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so you can seat a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise."
"This panic I felt at age ten was nothing less than a spontaneous and full-out realization of mortality's inevitable march...my sense of helplessness was overwhelming...I wanted to force the entire universe to stop in its tracks until I could get a grip on myself. This might have been the beginning of what my dear friend Richard from Texas called my 'control issues'. The closer I watched time, the faster it spun."
"Some of us are hardwired for anxiety about mortality."
"The word amok, as in 'running amok,' is a Balinese word describing a battle technique of suddenly going insanely wild again one's enemies... the Europeans were frankly terrified by this practice."
"i have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion."