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If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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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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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
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Dear me, how I love a library.
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Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
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What do I believe that I deserve in this life?
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True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
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Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
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You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
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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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One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace
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Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
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You were given life it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
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I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.
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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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