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I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. - Elizabeth Gilbert
" "I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
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About Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born 18 July 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer, and memoirist.
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