Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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.
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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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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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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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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.
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