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 GILBERTI 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.”
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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 am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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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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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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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