Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIn 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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