Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
ELIZABETH GILBERTYou have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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