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Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.
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I said, It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close? Nah, he said casually. She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.
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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
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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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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
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The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.
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Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
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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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What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.
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