traveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERTIn 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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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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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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