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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Lovely Real Trust
Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
I 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Authority Give Person
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.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Name People Think
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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Demon Men True
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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Delight Need World
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Care Door Wait
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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Heart Spiritual Teacher
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Once Self Time Upon Worth
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Discipline Energy Serenity
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Cross Form Golden Retrievers
A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat Love Pray Need Pray
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Being Life Loneliness Single
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Friday Good Light Love

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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