I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within 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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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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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