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People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mat..
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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long tim..
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romance
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I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it--I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Lonelines..
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loneliness
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You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of ..
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
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When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
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marriage
relationships
love
truth
being-loved
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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spiritual
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I think I deserve something beautiful.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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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 most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going ..
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marriage
love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone...that's how the light of God gets in.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
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sorrow
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
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love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
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loss
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind t..
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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.
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happiness
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is with..
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relationships
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heartache
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
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gratitude
compassion
generosity
service
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
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love
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Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
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I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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love
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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inspirational
thoughtful
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We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
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self-awareness
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
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marriage
relationships
family
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
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Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
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heartbreak
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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 love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody--really want him--it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
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love
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To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" -- a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or int..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
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