“ In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means well-daemoned—that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only cu… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If faith were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with hi… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren’t going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creativ… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Do you think you are the only one to suffer? Read your bible, child; this world is not a paradise but a vale of tears. Do you think God made an exception for you? Look around you, what do you see? All… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ But Glass, in her research, discovered that if you dig a little deeper into people's infidelities, you can almost always see how the affair started long before the first stolen kiss. Most affairs begi… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and THIS makes the senses stronger in Italy than an… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons. And a shared private heaven can quickly descend into a failed pr… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hai… Elizabeth Gilbert
