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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
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I said, It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close? Nah, he said casually. She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.
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I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
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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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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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When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
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The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
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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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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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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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The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.
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