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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Engineering Horse Think
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Made Mistake Pick Yourself
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.
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Authority Give Person
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
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
Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
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.
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Children House Self
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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Beautiful Curiosity Long
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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House Need Powerful
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
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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Art Lovely Real Trust
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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Discipline Energy Serenity
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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Character Heartbreak Love
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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Bliss Inexplicable 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
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

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