My 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 GILBERTBalance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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I 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.
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traveling is the great true love of my life
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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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.
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I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
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I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
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Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
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I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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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.
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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 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.
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