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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 guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Delight Need World
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Comic Everything Okay
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bit Needs Sometimes
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children House Self
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Live People Sacrifice
traveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Great Life Love True
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Character Heartbreak Love
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
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Choices Eat Love Pray
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat Love Pray Need Pray
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children Lazy Mom
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Broken Heart Reality
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Made Mistake Pick Yourself

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