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

Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stubborn Tattoo
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Friday Good Light Love
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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Care Door Wait
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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.
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Bliss Inexplicable World
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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Character Heartbreak Love
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Promise Universe Write
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
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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Children House Self
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
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
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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Broken Heart Reality
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Cross Form Golden Retrievers
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

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