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Let your conscience be your guide.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Conscience

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It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
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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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The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
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I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
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Ketut, why is life all crazy like this? I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world? Nothing. Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.
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With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
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I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
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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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I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.
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But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.
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Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
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Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
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You have no idea how strong my love is!
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