Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERTDesperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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 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 GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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 GILBERTMost of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERTtraveling is the great true love of my life
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 GILBERTWho amongst us lives without sacrifice?
ELIZABETH GILBERTNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
ELIZABETH GILBERTIn a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
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 GILBERTSometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERTBut never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERTThere’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERTOm Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT