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 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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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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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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