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Said Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'
- We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend,…
- Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too."…
- I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed…
- Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the…
- Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that…
- Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,…
- I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering…
- [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When…
- If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got…
- Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye…
- He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted…
- Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter…
- We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
- I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building…
- Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully…
- So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
- He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a…
- Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by…
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