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The resting place of the mind is the heart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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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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Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
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There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
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God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
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The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
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Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
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Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
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Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.
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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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I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
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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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The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
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