The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
ELIZABETH GILBERTThe reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We’re not destroyed by it.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMy life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERTI think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
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 GILBERTIf Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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 GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMost of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSomeone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERTMost of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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 GILBERTThe six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
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 GILBERTA 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. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT