“ Excited, I want to pause for a moment and ask you to consider all the negative conclusions that I could have drawn about this incident, Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity—for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one m… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future is terribly grim. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough fo… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepare… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Which is to say, the Romans didn’t believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius; they believed that an exceptionally gifted person had a genius. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Where am I getting the brain space to store these words? I'm hoping that maybe my mind has decided to clear out some old negative thoughts and sad memories and replace them with these shiny new words. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ When the nineteenth-century Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai invented non-Euclidean geometry, his father urged him to publish his findings immediately, before someone else landed on the same idea,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ When a situation is making you truly miserable, it's difficult to say that you are merely unhappy. There seems to be nothing mere for instance, about crying for months on end, or feeling that you are… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a mor… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, Dear God, that family needs grace.She replied firmly, That family needs casseroles, and then proceeded to organize the en… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What kind of dog is that? I would always give the same answer: She's a brown dog. Similarly, when the question is raised, What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnific… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right- I was speaking tot he creator of the universe as though we'… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get laid? Elizabeth Gilbert
