“ Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words in… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones a… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It’s not fair for you to come here, I tell Depression. I paid you off already. I served my time back in New York. But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down. I Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Inspiration is trying to send me messages in every form it can—through dreams, through portents, through clues, through coincidences, through déjà vu, through kismet, through surprising waves of attra… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In the end, what I have come to believe about God is simple. It’s like this—I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all. After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our heart… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If you're a coward--and let's just say that you are, for the sake of argument--it means nothing. My Aunt Peg, she's an alcoholic. She can't handle drinking. It ruins her life and turns her into a mess… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If you made something and it didn’t work out, let it go. Remember that you’re nothing but a beginner—even if you’ve been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we s… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If you don’t have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a c… Elizabeth Gilbert
