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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTDesperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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