I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSuccess isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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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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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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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.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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