Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.
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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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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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