black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Success isn’t about acquiring things, it’s about discovering your life purpose and following the call
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Acquire Discovering Purpose Thing
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stubborn Tattoo
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Emotional Inspirational Life
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

Children House Self
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Bless Dream Eat Follow Love
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Choices Eat Love Pray
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People Stories Write Writing
Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Care Door Wait
I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Engineering Horse Think
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Character Heartbreak Love
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Friday Good Light Love
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Made Mistake Pick Yourself
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Funny Love Sanity
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

Dark Definitions Face
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Earth Need Read
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

House Need Powerful
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

Discipline Energy Serenity
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Desperate Love Way
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Being Life Loneliness Single
Devotion 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 GILBERT

Say Understanding Way Yes
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Demon Men True
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Divinity Eat Honor Love Pray
traveling is the great true love of my life
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Great Life Love True
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Cross Form Golden Retrievers
A 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 GILBERT

Art Interest Jewel
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.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Authority Give Person
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Promise Universe Write

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes