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Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person t

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when Im alone and trying to solve a sentence. Its exciting, even when its frustrating, even when I cant do it right. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I know Im not a self-indulgent idiot I also know Im not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, thats when the mental illness arrives. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesnt always hold. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Were all in this alone. – Lily Tomlin

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. – Edward Sapir

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I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that youre going through to realize that youre not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that its not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery. – Sarah McLachlan

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Testing oneself is best when done alone. – Jimmy Carter

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