But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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.
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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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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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