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William Shakespeare

So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. They called us, for our fierceness, English dogs; Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Honey, I'm Brazilian south. I can spend ten years with broken because of a woman I have not even kissed heart.

Example | Family | Mother |

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My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planetâ€”thatâ€™s not a problem. The problem is that I just canâ€™t live anywhere on the planet.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

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William Shakespeare

So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

Marriage | Time |

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Elizabeth Gilbert

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

Peace | Right | Spirit | Think |

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Donâ€™t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, thatâ€™s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. Thatâ€™s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceriesâ€”you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. Itâ€™s your destiny. Donâ€™t laugh.

Art | Peace | Art |

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and albatross in equal measure. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didnâ€™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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William Shakespeare

Such it is as are those dulcet sounds in break of day that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear and summon him to marriage.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone?

God | Peace | God |

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Elizabeth Gilbert

I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isnâ€™t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why Iâ€™m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, do you have friends [there]?â€™ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. Heâ€™s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

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William Shakespeare

Still it cried â€˜Sleep no more!â€™ to all the house: â€˜Glamis hath murderâ€™d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,â€”Macbeth shall sleep no more!

Peace | Right | Silence |

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William Shakespeare

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

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Elizabeth Lesser

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. 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 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, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

The other day in prayer I said to God, Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?.

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