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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Choices Eat Love Pray
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
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
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
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Desperate Love Way
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Live People Sacrifice
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.
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Authority Give Person
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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House Need Powerful
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
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
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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Meal Men 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
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Demon Men True
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
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
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.
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Dark Girl Think
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Once Self Time Upon Worth
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
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Being Life Loneliness Single
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
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Balance Love One
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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Dark Definitions Face
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
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
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

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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