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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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 GILBERT

Children House Self
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Care Door Wait
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Meal Men 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Delight Need World
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.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Name People Think
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Once Self Time Upon Worth
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
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat Love Pray Need Pray
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Broken Heart Reality
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stories Write Writing
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Heart Spiritual Teacher
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Engineering Horse Think
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stubborn Tattoo
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bit Needs Sometimes
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Promise Universe Write

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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