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 GILBERTA man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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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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