There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBalance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Devotion 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.
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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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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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