Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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.
Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.
Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.
Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.
It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.