Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERTEverything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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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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.
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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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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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