you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. Elizabeth Gilbert emotionalinspirationallife Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. Elizabeth Gilbert being-contentformart This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind! Elizabeth Gilbert eyebrokenheart Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not. Elizabeth Gilbert dignityessentials I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Elizabeth Gilbert depressionloveromantic Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. Elizabeth Gilbert motivationalhappinessinspirational Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert one-lovebalancelove-you Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. Elizabeth Gilbert strengthmotivationalinspirational If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach. Elizabeth Gilbert readyanswersbeach There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. Elizabeth Gilbert fateoddsfall I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. Elizabeth Gilbert spacesufferinghappiness To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition Elizabeth Gilbert father-sonpowerfulfaith Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert crumblingtough-timesinspirational Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. Elizabeth Gilbert I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living. Elizabeth Gilbert novelistspacewould-be This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert solitudehealinglooks The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results. Elizabeth Gilbert balancelightdarkness I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. Elizabeth Gilbert destinyopportunityinteresting This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Elizabeth Gilbert stay-strongheartbreaklove There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. Elizabeth Gilbert best-eat-pray-loveeat-pray-love-bookreason
