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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

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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Definitions Face
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 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
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
traveling is the great true love of my life
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Great Life Love True
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
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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Children Lazy Mom
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Comic Everything Okay
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
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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.
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Say Understanding Way Yes
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
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Bit Needs Sometimes
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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Meal Men Think

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