Choosing happiness Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

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