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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6b7cd69 | His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 87be22f | But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. | life personality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 278ed56 | The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dfc7f9b | 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. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you're craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 95d09a9 | La adiccion es tipica en todas las historias de amor basadas en el encaprichamiento. Al llegar al destino final del amor caprichoso: la mas absoluta y despiadada devaluacion del propio ser. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c98cc79 | He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel li.. | learning moving-on-and-letting-go | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 805b7c8 | Once the troublesome mind "begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work." But if you can surpass those thoughts, Teresa explained, and ascend toward God, "it is a glorious bewilderment, a heavenly madness, in which true wisdom is acquired." | philosophy wisdom | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1936dc4 | The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility. | humor | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f225291 | If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 060d515 | the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"- the thoughts swing from limb to limb, stopping to scratch themselves, spit and howl. You are after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." | Mark Gilbert | ||
| f7f2960 | someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you may think of them and their supposed good fortune. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d21d58e | sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c4280ed | Cherie, je suis Bresilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brise a cause d'une femme que je n'ai meme pas embrassee. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 26320b8 | we must find the patience and resignation to endure our challenges as they arise to meet us. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 67773db | Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b505b1f | Si no sabes donde estas ni a que clan perteneces,?como piensas hallar el equilibrio? | Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love. | ||
| 8bfdfcd | one of the reasons I was so free that year was because I was such a mess. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5abbe30 | Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they'd ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthle.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 988dd00 | A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 649fe2e | For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 80a7c7c | Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize the distinction. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cc72693 | We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6411de5 | The paradox that you need to comfortably inhabit, if you wish to live a contented creative life, goes something like this: "My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely)." Sometimes" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3980a3c | Whether you think you're brilliant or you think you're a loser, just make whatever you need to make and toss it out there. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2a981cb | To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the senses for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4c7f2a5 | Done is better than good." I" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f7f616d | You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 75ea342 | the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 85a8d01 | Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline. Your job, then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity. | spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a97c715 | Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you--the same way it hunted down your ancestors. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 920ad44 | We must risk delight," he wrote. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c1f9d9 | Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling. You're rolling the dice on the slim odds that your investment of time, energy, and resources now might pay off later in a big way--that somebody might buy your work, and that you might become successful. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3521918 | If you do say yes to an idea, now it's showtime. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9f7f87c | Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship--a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over; half of it is absolutely in your hands, and your actions will show measurable consequence. Man | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 362be58 | Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c8135eb | She's a cheerful soul who's having a wonderful time living out the existence that best suits her nature and most brings her to life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fecf1d9 | My desire to work--my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible--is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a4c02ad | Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be . . . a prudent insurance policy. I'm not interested in the insurance industry. I'm tired of being .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c141637 | the only truly fearless people I've ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds--and those aren't good role models for anyone. The | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8896b53 | Parvati and Shiva are the divine embodiment of creativity (the feminine) and consciousness (the masculine). She is the generative energy of the universe; he is its formless wisdom. Whatever | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 609f637 | Saint anthony once wrote about having gone into the desert on silent retreat and being assaulted by all manner of visions-devils and angels, both. He said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e71f6e2 | With death, all suffering would end. Doubt would end. Shame and guilt would end. All her questions would end. Memory--most mercifully of all--would end. She could quietly excuse herself from life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bc3e6f7 | Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically hare-brained Western way to think that anyone could ever get truly better. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 77e4f7a | What I mean is- find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone | Elizabeth Gilbert |