I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil. Elizabeth Gilbert moss enough-time strong Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar. Elizabeth Gilbert miracle liars men When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. Elizabeth Gilbert woods journey sometimes Most of all, I can choose my thoughts. Elizabeth Gilbert bali-eat-pray-love eat-love-pray choices My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you Elizabeth Gilbert funny-love sanity To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender. Elizabeth Gilbert surrender simple happy-life The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. Elizabeth Gilbert legacy war world Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest? Elizabeth Gilbert think-of-you love-you thinking When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't. Elizabeth Gilbert goodbye kids thinking Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. Elizabeth Gilbert effort fighting happiness It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. Elizabeth Gilbert perfectionism haute-couture shoes My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. Elizabeth Gilbert careers people thinking You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. Elizabeth Gilbert sheep patience years Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas. Elizabeth Gilbert massive attention drama You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over. Elizabeth Gilbert creativity destiny artist Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up. Elizabeth Gilbert effort jobs believe The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go Elizabeth Gilbert silence mind heart It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones. Elizabeth Gilbert bones enough knows Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?' Elizabeth Gilbert smart years thinking I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling. Elizabeth Gilbert expression writing believe
