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 GILBERTMy life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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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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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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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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