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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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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Earth Need Read
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life
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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Art Lovely Real Trust
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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Delight Need World
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
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Say Understanding Way Yes
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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Bliss Inexplicable World
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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Character Heartbreak Love
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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Care Door Wait
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Friday Good Light Love
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
If 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.
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Children House Self
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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Beautiful Curiosity Long
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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Eat Love Pray Need Pray
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
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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House Need Powerful
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 GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel

But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

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