"There's no reason to keep a piece of……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book."
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert has 507 quotes on this site.
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,…
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always…
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There…
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the…
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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world,…
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that…
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats…
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