“ He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know whe… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. Create whatever you want to create—and Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Creative Living, Defined So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? Look, I don… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Chérie, je suis Brésilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brisé à cause d'une femme que je n'ai même pas embrassée. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ But Aristophanes warned that this dream of completion through love is impossible. We are too broken as a species to ever entirely mend through simple union. The original cleaved halves of the severed… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn’t try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection). Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Because if you love and want something enough—whatever it is—then you don’t really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call a hungry ghost—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed. Elizabeth Gilbert
