Quotes for All
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let’s enjoy this time. It’s marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth … Read more
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 over the last few years–I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. Elizabeth Gilbert
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Elizabeth Gilbert
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. Elizabeth Gilbert
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
The resting place of the mind is the heart. Elizabeth Gilbert
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 feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. Elizabeth Gilbert
It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment. Elizabeth Gilbert
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That’s our privilege. That’s the joy of a mortal body. And that’s why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. Elizabeth Gilbert
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. Elizabeth Gilbert