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| cee3f2e | Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still:"Not yet." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9cd811a | You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump. I say: 'Attraversiamo.' Let's cross over. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dca672c | Here's another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 638d3ac | I became one of those annoying people who always say Ciao! Only I was extra annoying, since I would always explain where the word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!") Just speaking these words made me feel sexy and happy. My divorce lawyer told me not to worry; she said she had one client (Korean by heritag.. | itaali | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 67617a6 | Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 113e9b8 | This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page: 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. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I.. | love self-esteem | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 46cfb50 | Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back "Polo!" | italian | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0fd4aca | My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 88328b2 | This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was creeping upon her. She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 000e232 | But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves. It is not enough only to study and depict and describe. One must sometimes . . . leap. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5a0e1ef | Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing and you were in the best possible place in the world for it - in a beautiful place of worship, surrounded by grace. Take this time, every minute of it. Let things work themselves out here in India. | grief spirituality life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 17a8be2 | En un mundo de posibilidades tan variadas, la indecision nos puede dejara paralizados | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 969853a | Alma's existence at once felt bigger and much, much smaller -- but a pleasant sort of smaller. The world had scaled itself down into endless inches of possibility. Her life could be lived in generous miniature...She would probably die of old age before she understood even half of what was occurring in this one single boulder field. Well, huzzah to that! It meant that Alma had work stretched ahead of her for the rest of her life. She need no.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c26f4b7 | People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. 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 yo.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eafc12b | 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 share my body and life and money and energy with. | free-will identity | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 04d7563 | I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in a household like this." Susan said, "Why don't you leave those so-called children out of the discussion? They don't even exist yet. Why can't you just admit that you don't want to live in unhappiness anymore?" | not-settling-for-second-best | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 5263228 | Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ec735a3 | Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5a23950 | I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5571011 | Honey -- even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c7789be | I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed - much closer than we imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. I respond with gratitude to anyone who has ever voyaged to the center of that heart, and who has then returned to the world with a report for the rest of us that God is .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 766ee92 | Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c27478 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 56a3417 | All the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6863a5e | What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d4dc81f | Do you think you are the only one to suffer? Read your bible, child; this world is not a paradise but a vale of tears. Do you think God made an exception for you? Look around you, what do you see? All is anguish. Everywhere you turn there is sorrow. If you do not see sorrow at first glance, look more carefully. You will soon enough see it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 772181f | The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 44ea9b1 | Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b2c3757 | At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. | women | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| df14c1f | She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6e6e308 | Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight. | sleepless-nights elizabeth-gilbert | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8d12126 | author Martha Beck says of the ego, "Don't leave home without it." But do not let your ego totally run the show, or it will shut down the show. Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it's a terrible master--because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward. And since there's never enough reward to satisfy, your ego will always be disappointed. Left unmanaged, that kind of disappointment will rot you from the inside.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fb9c87b | Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0bcb567 | Never explain yourself, Alma. It makes you appear weak. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2ea9de1 | Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 92aa203 | All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life--collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0f54543 | They loved each other, she realized. They loved each other, because they knew each other. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5437911 | The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels--that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place--that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f6cc2bd | We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1319d64 | But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you step out? Where do you sit at the reunion? How do you mark time's passage without the fear that you've just frittered away your time on earth without being relevant? You'll need to find another purpose, another measure by which to judge whether or not you have been a successful human being. I l.. | woman feminism life virginia-woolf tradition | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8d6f791 | The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust--and those elements are universally accessible. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 09531b3 | You don't have to live like this because people tell you it's the only way. You're not handcuffed to your culture! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 136c1a9 | I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and it grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It want.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3369107 | The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. | Elizabeth Gilbert |