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 GILBERTI never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
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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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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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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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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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