Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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