Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTThere’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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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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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
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You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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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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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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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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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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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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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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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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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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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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