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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMost 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.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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. 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 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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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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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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But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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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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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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