My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERTIf 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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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 never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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