Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSomeone has to write all those stories: why not me?
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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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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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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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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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
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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 am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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