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Up Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- 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…
- Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that…
- What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
- Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.
- Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you…
- There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.
- Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
- That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I…
- Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.
- Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.
- It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and…
- I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really…
- There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up…
- Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has…
- My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to…
- 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,…
- I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and…
- In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the…
- 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…
- 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 is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?
- I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing…
- The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
- the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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