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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

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
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
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
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Being Life Loneliness Single
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Lovely Real Trust
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Made Mistake Pick Yourself
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat Love Pray Need 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
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Emotional Inspirational Life
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

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.
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Art Interest Jewel
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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Delight Need World
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Bit Needs Sometimes
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Broken Heart Reality

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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