But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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 all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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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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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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 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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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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