I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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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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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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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 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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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