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.
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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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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