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Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there. — Elizabeth Gilbert

(What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. — Elizabeth Gilbert

At any given moment, and that night, going back to — Elizabeth Gilbert

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I — Elizabeth Gilbert

So you are industrious, but not original? — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The love that moves the sun and the other stars. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, — Elizabeth Gilbert

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Devotion is diligence without assurance — Elizabeth Gilbert

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Divine Time, Geological Time, Human Time, Moss Time. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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) — Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you, — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. — Elizabeth Gilbert

One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too. — Elizabeth Gilbert

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something — Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough — Elizabeth Gilbert

He never dreamed — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. — Elizabeth Gilbert

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No — Elizabeth Gilbert

Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Through the mere act of creating something - anything - you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important — Elizabeth Gilbert

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You gonna tuck me in?"
She stifled the grin. Opportunistic, determined idiot. "You gonna behave?"
"Define 'behave. — Elizabeth Hunter

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger! — Elizabeth Gilbert

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. — Elizabeth Gilbert

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your tears are my prayers. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, to walk against the wind for pleasure. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you! — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you set out in the world to help yourself,sometimes you end up helping Tutti. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble — Elizabeth Gilbert

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He was still my romantic hero and I was still his living
dream — Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Painting working! — Elizabeth Gilbert

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You learn to smile even in you liver?'
'Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Struggle explained everything. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Perfection takes time but comes for sure — Elizabeth Gilbert

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too). — Elizabeth Gilbert

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self. — Elizabeth Gilbert

his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Balinese don't wait and see "how things go." That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart. — Elizabeth Gilbert