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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life ""Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be""When the body becomes part of a larger, fungible organism""The love that remains within us despite everything""The beauties and joys of medieval literature alone provide more than enough delight for those who can read""God long ago drew up the contract for the dissolution of all elements and relationships, the moment they emerge from existence""The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt""If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something""I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit""I think I deserve something beautiful""Perfection is not just a like for self-improvement, though. Perfectionism is a high-end, haute couture version of fear""The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it""It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away ""Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots ""You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings ""Eat, Pray, Love""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 ""The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them ""This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something ""The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving "