Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERTYou have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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But 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.
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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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