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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
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We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.
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To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
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As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
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I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
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