“Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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