Around the world Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

8 Around the world quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s eight lines on traveling the globe paint a quick, vivid picture of wanderlust and discovery. The set is small, but each sentence carries her signature blend of curiosity and wonder.

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“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But…

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“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather…

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“I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a…

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“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

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“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

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“Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting…

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“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

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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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