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 GILBERTNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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