Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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.
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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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 never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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