“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.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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