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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.

— Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love (2006)

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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

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Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

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I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone.

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