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A stranger came out to White Acre one day to sell Henry a pony, for Alma to learn to ride. The pony's name was Soames, and he was the color of sugar icing, and Alma loved him immediately. A price was negotiated. The two men settled on three dollars. Alma, who was only six years old, asked, "Excuse me, sir, but does that price also include the bridle and saddle which the pony is currently wearing?" The stranger balked at the question, but He..
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auction
father-and-daughter
henry-whittaker
pony
six-years-old
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Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes--but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work. Perfectionists
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.
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being-creative
creativity
glory
make-stuff
make-things
making-things
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I cannot unshackle myself from argument, Ambrose. Recall that I am Henry Whittaker's daughter. I was born into argument. Argument was my first nursemaid. Argument is my lifelong bedfellow. What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is the only proven arbalest against superstitious thinking, or lackadaisical axioms.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.
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opinions-of-others
others-opinions
pleaser
pleasing
pleasing-others
what-others-think
what-will-others-think
will-people-like-it
will-they-like-it
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I rail a lot against passion, because I feel like passion can be very exclusionary, and very elitist, and it can leave a lot of people feeling like they don't belong... I'm much more interested in allowing people to follow curiosity, which is a much more gentle impulse that doesn't require that you sacrifice your entire life for something. It's more of kind of a scavenger hunt, where you're allowed to pick up these tiny beautiful little clu..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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It's all for the best, I know it is. 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. I know all this. But still...
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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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's 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 mates..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.
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smile
spirituality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I don't think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don't think marriage is supposed to be an endurance contest.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We are all the chosen few.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Ah, lovely adolescence--when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . ) For"
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Worse, their relationship with their work is often emotionally violent. You want to make something? You are told to open up a vein and bleed. Time to edit your work? You are instructed to kill your darlings.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me--unfortunately for me. Jack Gilbert was a great poet, but if you've never heard of him, don't worry about it. It's not your fault. He never much cared about being known. But I knew about him, and I loved him dearly from a respectful distance, so let me tell you about him. Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh in 1925 and grew up in the midst of that city's smoke, ..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other's help.)
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I do not know of any creative soul who does not dream of calm, cool, grass-growing days in which to work without interruption
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Trust me, if you want to complain, you'll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her favor upon you.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I would sit with him until he was all right again. I knew that I would sit with him for as long as it took. That's all I could do. That was my only job in the world that day - to sit with a good man. To watch over him from the other side...until he was steadied.
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compassion
sit-with-someone
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The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one's own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity--for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one's eventual and inevitable demise. Anything less than a fight for endurance is cowardly. Anything less than a fight for endurance is a refu..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Dessutom kunde jag inte glomma vad min syster en gang hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn ar som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man maste vara bergsaker pa att det ar sa man vill ha det innan man satter igang.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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lkn ynbG~ 'n ttwqf~ `n lnZr l~ l`lm mn khll r'sk w'n tnZr~ mn khll qlbk .. hkdh st`rfyn llh
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Zmogus-nei dievu marionete, nei savo likimo seimininkas. Jis turi truputi ir vieno, ir kito. Per gyvenima mes suoliuojame lyg cirko artistai, raiti ant dvieju salia lekianciu arkliu: viena koja - ant vieno arklio, vadinamo "likimu", kita - ant arklio, vadinamo "laisva valia". Kiekviena diena reikia klausti, kuris arklys "likimas", o kuris - "laisva valia", del kurio arklio nereikia jaudintis, o kuri turi paspausti."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Having money saved is not quite the same thing as having a plan, mind you--but it does start to make a girl feel as though a plan could someday be possible.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we long for that erasure because a particular day brought us such splintering sorrow that we can scarcely bear to think of it ever again. Or we might wish to blot out an episode forever because we behaved so poorly on that day--we were mortifyingly selfish, or foolish to an extraordinary degree. Or perhaps we injured another..
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped this world more than any other force. That said, she did not wish to die quite this moment. She still wanted to see what would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Traveling is the great true love of my life...I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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NO ONE KNOWS COCO, MY DEAR. SHE WOULD NEVER ALLOW FOR THAT.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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One can never know the state of another man's heart.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we long for that erasure because a particular day brought us such splintering sorrow that we can scarcely bear to think of it ever again. Or we might wish to blot out an episode forever because we behaved so poorly on that day- we were mortifyingly selfish, or foolish to an extraordinary degree. Or perhaps we injured another..
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regrets-in-life
unforgivable
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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And you have treasures hidden within you--extraordinary treasures--and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea--that it is ultimately entirely up to you--the better off you'll be.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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we can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.
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paris
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Well, you can't have too much conscience about things!" said Gladys. "Or else you'll never stop worrying!" And that, I'm afraid, was the extent of our moral agonies. Subject closed."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself, or to relieve yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time -- everything.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business. Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to." Actually, don't even bother answering. Just keep doing your thing."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Ever try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Divert his attention. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier." "Like what?" "Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love."
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Dios vive en ti, como vives tu y es exactamente como eres tu
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Elizabeth Gilbert |