A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
ELIZABETH GILBERTWho amongst us lives without sacrifice?
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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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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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
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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 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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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