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Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.
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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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There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, I already have, mister.
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It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
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Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help 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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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
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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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As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul even one puff is bad for you.
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We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
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There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince I was the administrator of my own rescue.
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So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
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The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.
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