But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERTOm Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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