Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERTGiven that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSomeone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERTtraveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERTDevotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIf we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMy life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERTDevotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying “Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSuccess isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
ELIZABETH GILBERTI can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
ELIZABETH GILBERTNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBalance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT