Elizabeth Gilbert quotes - page 2

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. View quote
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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
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. View quote
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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. View quote
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a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. View quote
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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. View quote
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. View quote
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I think I deserve something beautiful. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
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. View quote
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So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. View quote
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This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. View quote
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. View quote
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God dwells within you, as you. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. View quote
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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. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. View quote
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When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place. View quote
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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. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell. View quote
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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. View quote
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