Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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