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.
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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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