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 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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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.
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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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