Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking Elizabeth Gilbert meditation prayer talking I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it. Elizabeth Gilbert forgiving dumb views The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. Elizabeth Gilbert cryptic evident dislike Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. Elizabeth Gilbert fire love men I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine. Elizabeth Gilbert streets sunshine walks Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life. Elizabeth Gilbert endure good-life disappointment Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert love-you home world I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents. Elizabeth Gilbert men mean people What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives. Elizabeth Gilbert encounters interesting thinking I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger! Elizabeth Gilbert towns stranger wanted The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. Elizabeth Gilbert bali-eat-pray-love eat-love-pray achievement God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Elizabeth Gilbert joy-god want joy Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. Elizabeth Gilbert married honor america Life's metaphors are God's instructions. Elizabeth Gilbert metaphor instruction To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. Elizabeth Gilbert humility feet heart I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. Elizabeth Gilbert unreal real thinking The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked. Elizabeth Gilbert asks trying The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular. Elizabeth Gilbert narrators things-i-love novelists We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert heart interesting thinking Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender Elizabeth Gilbert dear-lord forgiveness needs
