Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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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