 “ I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. ” ~ 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? ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your exwife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to motherfucker. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I felt like I was some kind of primitive springloaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments they run you down in the end. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I love my pizza so much in fact that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza almost an affair. Meanwhile Sofie is practically in tears over hers she's having a metaphysical crisis about it and she's begging me Why do they even bother trying to make pizza in Stockholm Why do we even bother eating food at all in Stockholm. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men - for certain people't o be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean isI never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I fell asleep holding my notebook pressed against my chest, open to this most recent assurance. In the morning when I wake up, I can still smell a faint trace of depression's lingering smoke, but he himself is nowhere to be seen. Somewhere during the night, he got up and left. And his buddy loneliness beat it, too. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I still can't say whether I ever want children .I can only say how I feel nowgrateful to be on my own. I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ i don't want to be marry anymore. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion. ” ~ 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?. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“ I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you facefirst out of the dirtthis is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. ” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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