Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERTYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI 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.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMan is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
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 GILBERTBalance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERTOm Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERTGiven that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERTDesperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERTA man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
ELIZABETH GILBERTYou might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
ELIZABETH GILBERTMost of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERTYou have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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 GILBERTI am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERT