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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
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When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
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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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A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
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The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.
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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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This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
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Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
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The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.
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God dwells within you, as you.
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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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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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The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
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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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Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.
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What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.
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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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