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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children Lazy Mom
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
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.
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Beautiful Curiosity Long
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Live People Sacrifice
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 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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Eat Love Pray Need Pray
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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Name People Think
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn’t. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Girl Think
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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Destiny Heart Sleep
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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Engineering Horse Think
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Desperate Love Way
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

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

Bit Needs Sometimes

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