Elizabeth Gilbert citations

“Chérie, je suis Brésilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brisé à cause d'une femme que je n'ai même pas embrassée.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”

“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”