Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERTDevotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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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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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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 said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
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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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