A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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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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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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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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