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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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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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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.
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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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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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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