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traveling is the great true love of my life

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Traveling
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I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
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The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.
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I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
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We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.
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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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I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
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Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
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Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.
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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.
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The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
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He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
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I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!
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To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
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