Today's Quote

"Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) 

有人說 通往天堂的路有七層,你必須一層一層往上攀爬,才能到達極致的天界. 而地獄也有七層,不斷一層一層的向下沉淪,最終也將陷落最底層的深淵. 如果現在的我就在地獄的最底層, nothing I can do but to climb up...我不求到達天堂,但就算想要重回人間,一樣得向上探求.

而不論那顆心陷落在地獄的第幾層,遭受著怎樣的煎熬,我仍然希望自己看起來非常美好,因為there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. 讓週遭的人時時刻刻想著安慰你的話語,露出同理心的表情,甚或讓所愛的人因此心緒隨之低落,都不是我所想見到的事情. 我常笑說這是牡羊座的自尊,搞得自己像小丑一樣,只想讓人看到外表的五顏六色和歡愉,而拒絕任何灰暗內心世界的表露.

這段話是作者Liz在峇里島的藥舖時碰到美麗性感的巴西女郎Armenia時, 她對Liz說的一段話. 巴西女人對自己的外在表現如此的重視,重視到了一種令人尊敬的地步.他們無時無刻的讓自己呈現最性感美麗的狀態,像是永遠盛開的熱帶花朵,盡力的奔放出迷人的濃烈香氣和繽紛色彩,絕對不允許自己有一刻不誘人. 這樣的self-respect,才是真正讓人敬佩的地方.

我真的很喜歡Eat Pray Love這本書,不單單是因為我喜歡吃喜歡旅行,更因為他給我很多堅強的理由,伴我走過很多在國外旅行時的孤單日子. 雖然電影版本不是那麼的令人滿意,但短短兩個半小時要說完一年的故事和成長本來就不容易,就像一個短短的quote也不可能完整表達我的心境. 還會有更多的quotes from this book, and I am going to read it over again...