Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTThe 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
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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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