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 GILBERTMistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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