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Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
In 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.
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Character Heartbreak Love
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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Delight Need World
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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Broken Heart Reality
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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Name People Think
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Friday Good Light Love
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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Bliss Inexplicable World
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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Meal Men Think
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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Dark Girl Think
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Demon Men True
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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Say Understanding Way Yes
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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People Stubborn Tattoo
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Funny Love Sanity
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Made Mistake Pick Yourself
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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Engineering Horse Think
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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Children House Self

Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

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