"The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go."

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Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

Elizabeth Gilbert

#Heart Quotes #Silence Quotes #Mind Quotes

“This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.”

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“O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself”
“Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.”
“Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?”
“You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?”
“I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway”
“It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.”
“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”

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