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 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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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