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I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
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Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Suffering
Space
Happiness
Future
Surprises
Making
Choosing
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Unknown
Life
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Surprise

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