I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERTNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
-
-
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
If 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 GILBERT -
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
If 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 GILBERT -
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
I said, “It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?” “Nah,” he said casually. “She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.”
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Devotion 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 GILBERT -
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Learning 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 GILBERT -
Most 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 GILBERT -
traveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT