There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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 was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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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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Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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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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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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