My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERTMy 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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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 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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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 am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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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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