When we act like everything in our life is perfect, especially to our friends, we're not just putting up a front for them. We're also telling ourselves that we're not good enough as we are. If we really felt good about ourselves, we'd be okay with sharing our true selves, including our weaknesses and mistakes. But often, we feel we're not good enough, so we try to show a better version of ourselves. This can actually make us feel worse about ourselves.
Movie about British pensioners who moved to a retirement home in India where they got a new lease of life.
Here's some quotes from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel the movie.
in India, we have a saying...
"Everything will be alright in the end.
So if it's not all right, then it is not yet the end."
So if it's not all right, then it is not yet the end."
~ Sonny
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I love this quote from when their friend died ... and it was his last request to die in India in the presence of his one true love.
"Is it our friend we are grieving for,
whose life we knew so little
or is it our own loss that we are mourning?
Have we travelled far enough that we can allow our tears to fall?"
~Evelyn
"When someone dies, you think about your own life"
~Madge
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about living in India
"The way people see life as a privilege and not as a right"
~The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Above all, I love the ending line of Evelyn as the movie comes to a conclusion
"The only real failure is the failure to try."
~ Evelyn
"The measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. As we always must,
We came here, and we tried. All of us, in our different ways.
Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change?
Too scared of disappointment to start it all again?
We get up every morning, we do our best.
Nothing else matters. But it;s also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing; has nothing.
All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So, we must celebrate the changes. Because, as someone said "Everything will be all right in the end. And it it's not all right, then trust me, it's not yet the end."
~Evelyn
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I truly recommend watching this movie this 2025 ... specially to those people of today who are living with anxiety about their hardship in life
Thank you for the great movie recommendation. It has really touched my heart and understands more of what my elders are going through .. or possibly thinking on where they are right now.
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