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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Broken Heart Reality
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Authority Give Person
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

House Need Powerful
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Say Understanding Way Yes
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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 GILBERT

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

Being Life Loneliness Single
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.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Name People Think
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Demon Men True
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
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Discipline Energy Serenity
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Once Self Time Upon Worth

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