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Become Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
- Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential,
- What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
- Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it…
- If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
- Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking…
- 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 might…
- To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's…
- in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and…
- Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can…
- When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see…
- I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job…
- My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and…
- Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the…
- I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about…
More Become Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle