Elizabeth Gilbert: Trending quotes

“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”

“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”

“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.”

“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, there are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”