Destiny Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

21 Destiny quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s twenty‑one musings on destiny feel like candid conversations with a trusted friend. Her narrative flair turns abstract ideas into relatable moments, encouraging readers to trust their own path.

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Teach your heart that this is destiny

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Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

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There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's…

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“But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew…

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Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident…

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The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation…

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I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly…

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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect…

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The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place…

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Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the…

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“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite…

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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and…

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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide…

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Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart…

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You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,…

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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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“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain…

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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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“Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half…

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I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved,…

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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process…

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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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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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