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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBalance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
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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 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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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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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