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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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I think I deserve something beautiful.
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If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
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Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.
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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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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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According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.
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That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.
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We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
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You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.
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And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
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When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
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Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
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Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying,We understand how it is - we have one, too.
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It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.
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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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