You never know how a good quest is going to end. Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Gilbert A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master. Elizabeth Gilbert loveromanticlife meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking Elizabeth Gilbert meditationprayertalking 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 forgivingdumbviews The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. Elizabeth Gilbert crypticevidentdislike Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. Elizabeth Gilbert firelovemen I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine. Elizabeth Gilbert streetssunshinewalks Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life. Elizabeth Gilbert enduregood-lifedisappointment Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert love-youhomeworld 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 menmeanpeople 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 encountersinterestingthinking I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger! Elizabeth Gilbert townsstrangerwanted The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. Elizabeth Gilbert bali-eat-pray-loveeat-love-prayachievement God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Elizabeth Gilbert joy-godwantjoy 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 marriedhonoramerica Life's metaphors are God's instructions. Elizabeth Gilbert metaphorinstruction 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 humilityfeetheart I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. Elizabeth Gilbert unrealrealthinking The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked. Elizabeth Gilbert askstrying 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 narratorsthings-i-lovenovelists 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 heartinterestingthinking
