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If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Teacher, Journey, Reality
"Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Grateful, Reality, Law
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.495, A&C Black

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Mistake, Reality, Thinking
"'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Reality, House, Parent

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Dream, Couple, Reality

Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most of us don't get what we wanted, and most of us find ways to have really interesting lives anyway.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Drama, Reality, Interesting
"Finding Cosmos in a Bed of Moss: Our Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert". Interview With Mari Malcolm, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 30, 2013.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Heart, Reality, Broken
"Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Disappointment, Reality, Space

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sacrifice, Reality, Taught Us
BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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