When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you ARE lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I choose to trust that inspiration is always nearby, the whole time I'm working, trying its damnedest to impart assistance. [...] Sometimes… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
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