Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
ELIZABETH GILBERTEverything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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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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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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