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 GILBERTI am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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.
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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.”
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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