Eat, Pray, Love

"The most important relationship a woman has, is with herself."

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

                   Quotes from Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert



這兩句話是整部電影中，我較為認同的這兩句話。可我更喜歡也更希望自己可以做的卻是：dolce far niente，意即：pleasant idleness。

諴然，："To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual" -- Oscar Wilde。

這部電影其實完全沒有新意，其實，這許多生活的道理，是不必靠旅遊清修來追尋答案的。認真享受生活的人會知道，答案一直都在身邊，一直都在我們的生活中。所以，最吸引人的部份還是Eat的部份。放假旅游，享受人生，欣賞美景，享遍美食，誰不喜歡？印度之旅則偶有神彩，結尾的巴厘部份卻是超級悶場了。

然，電影最讓我有共鳴的部份是：放假。意大利，我是一定要去看看的，希望能在一兩年內成行。印度巴厘，謝了，兩年內不會有興趣。放假，長假，誰不想？我都快想瘋了。可放一年的假，哇，從何來的錢？這可不是我這樣的凡夫俗子能做到的，別說一年，如能不愁錢的休息一個月，我夢裡也會笑了。

還是多睡點覺實際點，一則可以補充睡眠，二則養生，三則爭取多點機會發發夢，也許可以再次夢到和梅姐出遊也說不定。

Other quotes which I like:
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"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."

延伸閱讀：
我們都很無聊 by 畢明
偶爾失衡，或許才能真正平衡
Quotes fromEat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert