I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3278-i-may-not-have-gone-where-i-intended-to-go
Sep 232013
Sep 222013
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, author of memoir Eat, Pray, Love
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert
Sep 212013
There is no fixing or curing required for the soul, only caring. We must learn to live with a conscious awareness of what our individual soul requires for its full expression. This will most certainly require that we learn how to live with pain, both emotional and physical, for when a soul loses its way, it is because we, the human host, have lost our way. Pain is the soul’s alarm system that we’re off track and that attention and care are required.
– Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-judith-rich/soul-suffering_b_1585432.html
Sep 202013
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
– Barbara Bloom
Sep 192013
There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
– Washington Irving
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/44057-there-is-a-sacredness-in-tears-they-are-not-a
Sep 182013
Men don’t settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they’re dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.
– Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/174638-men-don-t-settle-down-because-of-the-right-woman-they
Sep 172013
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
– Mae West
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247297-good-girls-go-to-heaven-bad-girls-go-everywhere