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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Say Understanding Way Yes
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Desperate Love Way
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children House Self
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Demon Men True
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Destiny Heart Sleep
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
I 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat Love Pray Need Pray
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Funny Love Sanity
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Girl Think
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children Lazy Mom
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

House Need Powerful
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.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Name People Think

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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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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