Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERTWho amongst us lives without sacrifice?
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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.
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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 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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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
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