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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Authority Give Person
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
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Emotional Inspirational Life
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Lovely Real Trust
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
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
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bit Needs Sometimes
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stories Write Writing
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
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 GILBERT

Say Understanding Way Yes
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Beautiful Curiosity Long
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
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Made Mistake Pick Yourself
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Cross Form Golden Retrievers
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

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