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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 livingdream — 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
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