But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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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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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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