Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTIf 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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.
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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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