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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Promise Universe Write
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Authority Give Person
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bliss Inexplicable World
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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Care Door Wait
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Comic Everything Okay
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
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Beautiful Curiosity Long
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dark Girl Think
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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People Stories Write Writing
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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Earth Need Read
Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Live People Sacrifice
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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Engineering Horse Think
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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Bit Needs Sometimes
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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Delight Need World
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Being Life Loneliness Single
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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People Stubborn Tattoo

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

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