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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTGiven that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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.
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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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