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 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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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I said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
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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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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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