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the beauty of doing nothing

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

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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
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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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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.
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Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.
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Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
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Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
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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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I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.
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Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.
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I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.
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Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.
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That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
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