"When I lost my friends, it was because……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity."
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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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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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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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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
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