But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSuccess isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do 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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A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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