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Elizabeth Gilbert on building character

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHow do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer—you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It’s not only possible, it’s essential.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. I think you are free to search for any metaphor whatsoever which will take you across the worldly divide whenever you need to be transported or comforted. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageRecognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnd 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 face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLearning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. . . .The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageClearing 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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FindCenter Quotes ImageI guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt doesn’t take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian . . . I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

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