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And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no professionals. This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.
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When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.
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in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.
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Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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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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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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
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Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
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every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
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library is a beautiful old thing
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Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
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I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
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I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.
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you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
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As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.
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It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.
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