Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

“The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.”

“You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.”

“The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.”

“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

“What do I believe that I deserve in this life?”

“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.”

“Let your conscience be your guide.”

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

“God is an experience of supreme love.”

“God dwells within you, as you.”

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”

“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian… I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.”

“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“You have no idea how strong my love is!”

“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”

“You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.”

“The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”

“Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”

“Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)”

“With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?”

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

“It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.”

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”

“The resting place of the mind is the heart.”

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

“the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.”

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

“For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.”

“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”

“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”

“Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.”

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”