My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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