Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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• To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
• When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already…
• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I…
• My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
• Embrace the glorious mess that you are
• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
• My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
• People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another…
• I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it…
• I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should…
• That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
• Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to…
• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes…
• Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.
• Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.
• Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much…
• My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
• Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.
• The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...
• There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

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