“ Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and open our own lives, in celebration of the miracle of our existence. I do not believ… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ One must bear what cannot be escaped, she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Now, I cannot imagine where women ever got the idea that they must be perfect in order to be loved or successful. (Ha ha ha! Just kidding! I can totally imagine: We got it from every single message so… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Namely, that I don’t feel comfortable petitioning for specific things from God, because that feels to me like a kind of weakness of faith. I don’t like asking, Will you change this or that thing in my… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ My desire to work—my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible—is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy’s reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or mi… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I’ve heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Is it sometimes a difficult path? Sure. Does it make for an interesting life? The most. Will the inevitable difficulties and obstacles associated with creativity make you suffer? That part—cross my he… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Intr-o lume a dezordinii, a dezastrelor si a coruptiei, frumusetea ramane cateodata singurul lucru in care te poti increde. Doar excelenta in arta e incoruptibila. Placerea nu poate fi inselata. Si un… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first pla… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In all our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we long for that erasure because a particular day brought us such splintering sorrow… Elizabeth Gilbert
