This world Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

10 This world quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s ten brief reflections on “this world” paint a colorful picture of everyday wonder. Though concise, each sentence carries her signature curiosity and invites readers to notice the small marvels around them.

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There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and…

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Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

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It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself…

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In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our…

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But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for…

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No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom…

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You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around…

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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then…

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Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure,…

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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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