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This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Intimacy
Dark
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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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I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
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Your fear is just as boring as mine is. Everyone's got the same one. It is not precious. It is not special. It is not singular to you. It's just the one we all got wired with when we came in. Focus on your unique qualities that deserve to be celebrated and put fear back in its place. Don't listen to it. Onward.
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in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.
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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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We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.
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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
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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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Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
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I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!
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You have no idea how strong my love is!
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The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
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God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
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There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
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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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We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
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As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.
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I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.
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