Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
ELIZABETH GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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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.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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