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Going Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another…
- You never know how a good quest is going to end.
- I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply…
- 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…
- Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of…
- Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot…
- There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend…
- I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot…
- True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
- It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to…
- If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got…
- In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that…
- Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that…
- I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then…
- Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
- 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…
- If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
- But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling…
- He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a…
- Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades…
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- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
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