Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERTA 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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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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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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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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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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