There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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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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