Elizabeth Gilbert citations

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“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.”

“Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”

“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”

“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”

“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.”

“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”

“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.”