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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of...more

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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and...more

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If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but ...more

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We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should ...more

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We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

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I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wea...more

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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.

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We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

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Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of al...more

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My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to ...more

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Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.