“ A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? I was a bird who could dive and Felipe was a fish who can fly, we basically lived in midair. Diving and flying across oceans and c… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We must risk delight, he wrote. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.) Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New York.) Elizabeth Gilbert
“ For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.) Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Ah, lovely adolescence—when the talented are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society’s creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemn… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Îl implora întruna pe Dumnezeu:Te rog, te rog, deschide-mi inima. Asta era tot ce-şi dorea: o inima deschisa.(…)După câteva luni de rugă continuă pentru o inimă deschisă, ce credeţi că a primit Richar… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: You think you can scare me off? I’ve got another eighty years to wear you down! There are peo… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because—please believe me—we did not come all this great distance, and make a… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We're all related, after all, so there's going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that ide… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We are not alien visitors to this planet, after all but natural residents and relatives of every living entity here. This earth is where we came from and where we'll all end up when we die, and during… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There’s a reason they call God a presence—because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. Elizabeth Gilbert