Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
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.
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
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.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.
the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer
You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.
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.
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.
Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
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I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.
I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go
So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
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.
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.
