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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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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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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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 can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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