Category: Eat Pray Love

Daily Dose

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There is a great blog that I read that over flows with love. If you know it, you can attest. It’s called The Daily Love and it’s like a love devotional. Today’s post was particularly inspiring. The last paragraph in particular, which read:

You are the co-creator of your life with the choices you make. Do you want to keep making the same mistake, or are you ready to graduate and experience BIG LOVE in your life? The choice is yours – make it consciously, and make it TODAY!
 
This idea is TOO TRUE! I’m telling people all the time that life is all about the choices you make. If you’re unhappy, choose to change things around. Choose to BE HAPPY. So many people these days are too willing to say “oh well, I guess that’s how my life is going to go” and they settle. They settle for crappy relationships and meaningless jobs and poor friendships. I feel like people are lazy about going after what they really want. Choosing happiness. Choosing love; It’s hard work! It’s a daily decision that you have to think about making. It won’t just happen on it’s own. 
 
If you’re not in charge of your life then who is?

I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

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…this is just one of my favorite quotes from the latest book I read; Eat. Pray. Love. I haven’t seen the movie yet so I was excited to read the book first. Now, I started reading this book when I finished the Potato Peel Pie book…which was quite a while ago. It’s not a particularly hard read, in fact, I quite enjoyed it’s pace. But I still found myself being a little frustrating with my speed, or lack there of, in reading this book. Life clearly had a reason for this. {silly life} Over the past month or so it was as if I was reading the exact parts of the book that I needed to read at that very moment. And of course I didn’t realize this until after I finished it today.
As far as my recommendation goes, I can’t praise this book enough. I wasn’t really in need of inspiration when I started reading it, but still found myself being uplifted by so many parts of it. My copy is officially dog-eared a few times over. And while the author is a woman (Elizabeth Gilbert) it’s not an overly girly book. It really speaks to anyone who has felt lost, lonely, or in need of some guidance. It doesn’t throw religion on the reader either, which I liked. She writes about what worked for her and recognizes that there are many ways to finding oneself.
I’m sooo glad I read this book when I did and I hope the movie won’t be a huge disappointment (I’m talking to YOU Julia Roberts). I highly suggest it to anyone looking for a great read. Whether your in a good or bad place there is some really great stuff in this book. And if nothing else, maybe it will inspire you to look into traveling more or even learning a new language!

ciao bellas!