Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIn desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn’t. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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