"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot."
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
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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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