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I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential.

— Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love (2006)

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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

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Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

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I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.

The 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.

I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone.

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