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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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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Earth Need Read
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Friday Good Light Love
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Cross Form Golden Retrievers
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
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Promise Universe Write
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.
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Dark Definitions Face
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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Name People Think
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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People Stubborn Tattoo
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
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Balance Love One
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
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
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
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.
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Destiny Heart Sleep
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life

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