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Elizabeth Gilbert

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SABRINA JEFFRIES Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN That's the tragedy of this. She never got a chance to get the help she needs from the people who wan...
LEONE NUNLEY I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Moreover, I was beginning to experience something new - the fear of being alone. I had not been alon...
JOHN WYNDHAM Lisa did her job again. They're going to get some hits because they're a good team, too. But she had...
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C.S. LEWIS Nature means Necessity.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Nature never breaks her own laws.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nature never breaks her own laws
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LEANN SCHMIDT You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes ...
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LISA KLEYPAS She's up there kicking from beginning to end, ... You can't stop her. She's a force of nature. I can...
GRACIELA DANIELE Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but fo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but f...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE not only a great star but truly a force of nature. I'm 65 and when my body hurts or I'm about to com...
GRACIELA DANIELE I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f...
KELLY BUTLER Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again...
TAD WILLIAMS She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than y...
JOHN GREEN Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The hair she means to have is gold, Her eyes are blue, she's twelve weeks old, Plump are her f...
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON She makes me a stronger sprinter because I have to keep up with her. If I can keep up with her and b...
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LEONARDO DAVINCI My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d...
MAHEN SHARMA The knuckles of his hand that had Shaw's name inked across them caught my eye. I pointed to them. JAY CROWNOVER Jenn has not let her injuries discourage her. In fact, I think it has motivated her. She has discove...
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PAWAN MISHRA Elizabeth did a great job for us, and she got a lot of support from her defense behind her.
BRANDY FRAZIER He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA My son, to find a good wife, look at the way she treats her family. Remember that you too will becom...
EDMAN VAN SCHALKWYK A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amid...
WALTER GROPIUS She's one of those players we're grooming to be a leader. She needs to come out of her comfort zone ...
BETSY BLOSE We continually court Mother Nature because of her beauty, she leaves us a lasting impression, theref...
JANET FULAY So hold her closer when she cries, hold her closer when she feels. She needs a hand to hold, someone...
BLESSID UNION OF SOULS I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flow...
CLAUDE MONET I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter ...
CLAUDE MONET I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flo...
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ANNE BAXTER Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after...
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ASH GRAY I want someone to love me for me, faults and all.
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JOSé N. HARRIS I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take; Or else I doubt if Nature cou...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means...
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MICHAEL JACKSON There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhap...
ERICA JONG Slant narrowed his eyes. “Do the Clans walk alone into the final battle?”
Half Moon flatten...
ERIN HUNTER Fresh in my mind now is how they tortured her to death, how terrified she looked prior to her death....
BOBBY SCHINDLER Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the w...
JOHN MILTON My biggest worry about her was that she would overdo. There were some days we had to almost push her...
KAREN KAHL He told her the defendant needs attention from a mental health professional. He said she needs to ta...
ROBERT CLIFFORD She's really close to her family which is awesome. She always brags about her little sister and I lo...
AMBER HALL If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
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JOE JONAS My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

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NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
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ED SMART She was a little quieter before this game than she is most. This means so much to her.
MARISSA YOUNG Marriage for some may not mean, "your company is highly appreciated,but it simply means my lonelines...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I welcome her feral nature.
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VALORIE CURRY My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfa...
JOKO BECK I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family...
SURESH RAINA But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We want her adopted out by herself. She has been around puppies her entire life and now she needs a ...
JULIE QUINN It means a lot to my family that these people were willing to volunteer their time and their money, ...
GARY BESONG I admired her for that, she's more interested in her degree than playing ball. She could go and easi...
GREG THARRINGTON She definitely brings our morale up. We have a lot of confidence with her on the mound. She means so...
JACQUELINE WILLIAMS I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of n...
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB Man by nature is a selfish being because, he has been imbued by nature to think of self alone.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every single minute I think about this story, my mind turns to her family and the extraordinary risk...
CHARLES SENNOTT I get no reaction from her. Nothing. Which means I get everything.
COLLEEN HOOVER She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a n...
JOANNE WOODWARD She hasn't been asking about her mother as much as she did in the beginning, but she needs to be tol...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT God dwells within you, as you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Dear me, how I love a library.
ELIZABETH GILBERT That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of div...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic e...
ELIZABETH GILBERT يعتقد المرء أن توأم الروح هو الشخص الأنسب له ، وهذا ماي�...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...
ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus...
ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express...
ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...
ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT