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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

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
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
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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Say Understanding Way Yes
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
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Emotional Inspirational Life
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.
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Care Door Wait
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
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
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Live People Sacrifice
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
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Broken Heart Reality
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Comic Everything Okay
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
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Balance Love One
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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Engineering Horse Think

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

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