Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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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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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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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I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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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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