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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful magic skills that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition
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If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.
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You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
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Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.
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I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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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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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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The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.
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I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.
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I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.
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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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Dear me, how I love a library.
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For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.
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Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
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There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
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A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!
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You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.
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