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Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Success
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Life
Acquiring
Discovering
Following
Call

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Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most of us don't get what we wanted, and most of us find ways to have really interesting lives anyway.
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If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.
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I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.
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We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
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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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There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.
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I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.
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I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
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Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
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Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)
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The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.
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Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
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whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
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Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat
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But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
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