You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

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

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.