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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
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
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
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Live People Sacrifice
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
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
Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
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
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Balance Love One
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
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Comic Everything Okay
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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Discipline Energy Serenity
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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People Stubborn Tattoo
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
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

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