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God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Inspirational
Opening
Without
Door
Never
Doors
Face
Slams
Faces
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Slam
Hope
Cookies
Girl
Boxes

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When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
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Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
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God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.
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You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
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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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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
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Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.
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You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
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Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
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Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.
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I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!
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Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
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I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
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When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
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