I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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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.
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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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