Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 3

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• At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reason, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

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

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• I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Creativity, Voice

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• I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Novelists, Would Be, Pace

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

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• To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Powerful, Father Son

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• 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

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• Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love You, Home, World

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• To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Pregnancy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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• So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Looks, May, Imperfect

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• God dwells within you, as you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love, Eat Pray And Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Yoga, Self, Inner Peace

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

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• Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Disappointment, Good Life, Endure

  "Finding Cosmos in a Bed of Moss: Our Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert". Interview With Mari Malcolm, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Harbors, Unhealthy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.169, A&C Black

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• 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 repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Karma, Moving, Heaven

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.246, A&C Black

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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• Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Overcoming, Overcoming Fear, Boring

  "Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Fear Is The Most Boring Thing About You", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2014.

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• You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Moving, Light, Keep Moving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Perfection, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• 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 yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Depression, Fall

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• Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Peace, Crazy, Passion

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

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• I think I deserve something beautiful.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Positive, Beautiful, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Giving, Attention

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