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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Care Door Wait
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 GILBERT

Engineering Horse Think
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children Lazy Mom
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bit Needs Sometimes
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children House Self
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
A 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Meal Men Think
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Balance Love One
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Promise Universe Write
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Heart Spiritual Teacher
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 GILBERT

Authority Give Person
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stories Write Writing
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stubborn Tattoo

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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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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