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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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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
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
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Made Mistake Pick Yourself
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

Say Understanding Way Yes
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Children Lazy Mom
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Beautiful Curiosity Long
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Balance Love One
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 GILBERT

Dark Girl Think
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Demon Men True
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Destiny Heart Sleep
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
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bliss Inexplicable World
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Comic Everything Okay

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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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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