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Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)
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When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.
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Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.
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I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
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we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
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Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery
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I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
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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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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
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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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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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I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
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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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traveling is the great true love of my life
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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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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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I completely respect the ways people are bound in the lives that they have, whether it's because of forces outside of their control or choices that they've made that they want to honor with their own responsibilities and obligations - taking care of people around them or being a part of a community, or their work.
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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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Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
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