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.
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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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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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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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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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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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 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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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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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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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