Answers Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Gilbert’s writing balances curiosity with practicality, and her thoughts on answers echo that mix. With 13 thoughtful snippets, this page offers a gentle starting point for anyone seeking perspective on how we respond to life’s puzzles.

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If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not…

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the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do…

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It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

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I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of…

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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible…

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Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three…

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What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is…

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Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning…

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This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever…

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Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in…

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The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts…

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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's…

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Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of…

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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,…

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“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over…

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“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…

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“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…

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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary…

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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We…

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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…

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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.”

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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…

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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,…

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“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the…

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“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”

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Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the…

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I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

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