Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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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