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.”

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

“The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.”

“Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.”

“That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”

“But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.”

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”

“You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.”

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

“My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.”

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”

“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.”

“We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.”

“If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.”

“I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.”

“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.”

“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”

“I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.”

“From the center of my life, there came a great fountain…”