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.
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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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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 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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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