I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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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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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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