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.
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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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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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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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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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