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 library is a beautiful old thing Elizabeth Gilbert old-things library beautiful Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies Elizabeth Gilbert different energy two We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God Elizabeth Gilbert character order ideas I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. Elizabeth Gilbert simple want people If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night. Elizabeth Gilbert lilies knowing night There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. Elizabeth Gilbert heartbreak choices love A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. Elizabeth Gilbert mozzarella lovely evening But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress Elizabeth Gilbert dresses beautiful people If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. Elizabeth Gilbert ifs earth Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. Elizabeth Gilbert destiny self play He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow. Elizabeth Gilbert died shadow powerful What do I believe that I deserve in this life? Elizabeth Gilbert this-life i-believe believe We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. Elizabeth Gilbert resentment self-esteem thinking A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. Elizabeth Gilbert wall heartbreak love Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying. Elizabeth Gilbert helping past moving Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration. Elizabeth Gilbert taken prayer believe God is an experience of supreme love. Elizabeth Gilbert supreme The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution). Elizabeth Gilbert silly believe people I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age. Elizabeth Gilbert mean believe father the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance. Elizabeth Gilbert balance perfect numbers
