Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
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.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
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.
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
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.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
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.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
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.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
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.
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
