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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
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Waterbury
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I think I deserve something beautiful.
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whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
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You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.
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Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
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What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
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The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
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I completely respect the ways people are bound in the lives that they have, whether it's because of forces outside of their control or choices that they've made that they want to honor with their own responsibilities and obligations - taking care of people around them or being a part of a community, or their work.
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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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Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
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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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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
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A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
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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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I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.
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Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.
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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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