I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIf 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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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 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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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