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From Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we…
- 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…
- If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out…
- True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
- What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much…
- Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of…
- I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking…
- But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that…
- There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female…
- I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you…
- I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,…
- Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too."…
- The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim…
- I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from…
- 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…
- This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
- When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince…
- Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting…
- It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than…
- Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any…
- Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek…
- You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting…
- Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones…
- Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people…
- You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
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