The Quest of Physics

A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: 

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. 

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.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

She looks at you like you're someone never met before, much less someone once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame anyone. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

But you love her?

So love her.

But you miss her?

So miss her.

 Send her some love and light every time you think about her, then drop it.

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

I thank God for FEAR because for the first time, I'm afraid the person next to me will be the one who wants to leave...

"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots." 

from Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert