I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMan is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
ELIZABETH GILBERTEverything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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 GILBERTMy mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.
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 GILBERTDesperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERTWho amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTI never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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 GILBERTLearning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
ELIZABETH GILBERTOm Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT