I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. Elizabeth Gilbert desperate love-is way The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere. Elizabeth Gilbert effort prayer long he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream Elizabeth Gilbert stills hero dream creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special? Elizabeth Gilbert creative suffering people My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher. Elizabeth Gilbert spiritual heart teacher Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. Elizabeth Gilbert balance beautiful Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them. Elizabeth Gilbert dust eye humanity If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you. Elizabeth Gilbert hard ifs the beauty of doing nothing Elizabeth Gilbert doing-nothing whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off Elizabeth Gilbert alarms guilt feels You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Elizabeth Gilbert infatuation finals self I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :) Elizabeth Gilbert teacher night school traveling is the great true love of my life Elizabeth Gilbert great-true-love love-of-my-life I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :) Elizabeth Gilbert italian beautiful years you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. Elizabeth Gilbert humility heart looks 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 reading earth want It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. Elizabeth Gilbert chaotic this-world world Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. Elizabeth Gilbert liz learning-something-new inspirational But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. Elizabeth Gilbert challenges comfort order Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. Elizabeth Gilbert women lasts years
