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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Girl Think
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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Delight Need World
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

House Need Powerful
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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Art Interest Jewel
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.
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Heart Spiritual Teacher
I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
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Authority Give Person
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Choices Eat Love Pray
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life
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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Eat Love Pray Need Pray
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Demon Men True
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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Bliss Inexplicable World
Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Cross Form Golden Retrievers
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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Character Heartbreak Love

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