Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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.
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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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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 said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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