Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERTWell, 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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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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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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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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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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I 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.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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