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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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 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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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