Eat, Pray, Love Quotes

“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

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Please stop breaking my heart

Why on Earth would you hurt me so bad? What did I do to you? All I did was... To love you. God knows I did... I loved you like crazy. To the point that I would defend you from your own friends. To the point that I even put your family before mine. I was blind cuz I never saw what was going on behind the scene. But how would I have guessed? How?! If I thought I fell in love with my best friend from the MBA. Why didn't you warn me that you were gonna break my heart? Why did you ask me to marry you? Please tell me why... Please stop with the lies and stop telling me you love me... Because obviously you have no idea of what love means. I wish I could turn back time and just stayed friends. I wish I had never ever fallen in love with you. I wish you the best in your life, I really do... Because I want to believe, I NEED TO BELIEVE that you are not a bad person... And that all that harm and pain you caused me occurred due to a mental illness of you. I will miss your laugh and kindness when you were in a good mood. I won't miss your screams, angerness, cursing and bad attitude when you were in a bad mood. I won't miss all the times you hurt me and broke my heart. I won't miss those fights when you were mean to me. Why did this happen to us? Why did we have to meet in New Paltz? In the middle of nowhere. Oh God... Please help me to get over this. I need you God, please give me strength and patience. Please take care of him and help him become a better person. Bless him and his family. And please do the same with me and mine. We really need you God.

Dios sabe cómo hace las cosas

Dios nos envía señales todo el tiempo. Todo el tiempo Él nos habla y nos guía... a veces vemos estas señales y le hacemos caso, a veces no... y cuando eso ocurre Dios te habla tan fuerte, que no hay manera de que te hagas el sordo o la sorda. Él te pone las pruebas en tus narices, es como que te quita la venda de tus ojos. Entonces debes tomar una decisión: Escuchar y hacerle caso a Dios o hacerte de la vista gorda? Qué duro es cuando te enamoras de alguien... y ese alguien, esa persona que elegiste día a día, con la que viste tu futuro y hacías tantos planes; con la que pensabas formar una familia... resulta ser la persona que más daño te hace. Pero lo perdonas. Y de pronto se vuelve un círculo vicioso, de perdonar una y otra vez por amor. Porque tienes la esperanza de que con tu ayuda y la ayuda de Dios esa persona va a cambiar para bien. Pero luego te das cuenta que no pasa nada, que esa persona sigue en lo mismo y te sigue haciendo más y más daño. Qué duro es admitir, que te has convertido en masoquista, que te has enamorado de la persona equivocada... que todos esos sueños o planes a futuro ya no se van a cumplir, al menos no junto a esa persona.. porque despertaste, porque decidiste escuchar a Dios y hacerle caso. Pero cómo duele... que difícil es no saber si algún día vas a poder olvidarte de esa persona, de todo ese amor que sentías y de todo el daño que te hizo la persona que menos esperabas. Pero bueno Dios sabe cómo hace las cosas y al final del túnel siempre hay una luz.

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Wuthering Heights

Characters

• Heathcliff: Found, presumably orphaned, on the streets of Liverpool and taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw where he is reluctantly cared for by the family. He and Catherine grow close and their love is the central theme of the first volume. His revenge against the man she chooses to marry and its consequences are the central theme of the second volume. Heathcliff has been considered a Byronic hero, but critics have pointed out that he re-invents himself at various points, making his character hard to fit into any single "type." Because of his ambiguous position in society and his lack of status — underlined by the fact that "Heathcliff" is his given name; he has no surname — his character has been a favourite subject of Marxist criticism.
• Cathy Earnshaw: First introduced to the reader after her death, through Lockwood's discovery of her diary and carvings. The description of her life is confined almost entirely to the first volume. She seems unsure whether she is — or wants to become — more like Heathcliff, or more like Edgar. It is as if she wants both, even perhaps cannot be fully herself without both, and yet society or human nature makes that impossible. Some critics have argued that her decision to marry Edgar Linton is allegorically a rejection of nature and a surrender to culture — a choice with fateful consequences for all the other characters. Literary critics have examined her character through many different lenses, including those of psychoanalytic theory and feminist theory.

Hermoso Mensaje! Sobre Los Hijos

Y una mujer que sostenía un bebé contra su pecho dijo, Háblanos de los Hijos.
Y el contestó:
Vuestros hijos no son vuestros hijos.
Ellos son los hijos y las hijas de la Vida que trata de llenarse a si misma
Ellos vienen a través de vosotros pero no de vosotros.
Y aunque ellos están con vosotros no os pertenecen.

Les podeís dar vuestro amor, pero no vuestros pensamientos.
Porque ellos tienen sus propios pensamientos.
Podeís dar habitáculo a sus cuerpos pero no a sus almas,
Pues sus almas habitan en la casa del mañana, la cual no ser puede visitar, ni tan siquiera en los sueños.
Podeís anhelar ser como ellos, pero no lucheís para hacerlos como sois vosotros.
Porque la vida no maarcha hacia atrás y no se mueve con el ayer.

Vosotros sois los arcos con los que vuestros hijos, como flechas vivientes son lanzados a la Vida.
El Gran Arquero ve la diana en el camino del infinito, y la dobla con su poder y sus flechas pueden ir rápidas y lejos.
Haced que la forma en que dobleís el arco en vuestra manos sea para alegría.
El también, además a amar la flecha que vuela, ama el arco que es estable.

Khalil Gibran