But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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I said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
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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.
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If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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