Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• 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 for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

• We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Fate, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Yoga, Effort, Forever

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Happiness, Fighting, Effort

• Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Self, Play

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.168, A&C Black

• 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 each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, Bye, Effort

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.329, A&C Black

• The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Long, Effort

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

• Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Believe, Effort

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