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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bit Needs Sometimes
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Beautiful Curiosity Long
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Character Heartbreak Love
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Engineering Horse Think
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Live People Sacrifice
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
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
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Delight Need World
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Made Mistake Pick Yourself
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Friday Good Light Love
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bliss Inexplicable World
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Funny Love Sanity
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stories Write Writing
traveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Great Life Love True

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