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.
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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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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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.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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