“ There's a reason we refer to leaps of faith - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a mighty jump from the rational over to the unknowable, and I don't care how diligently schol… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that’s creative living. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that’s creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the f… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement the arrogance of belonging, and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with lif… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The hub of calmness—that’s your heart. That’s where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you’ll always find peace. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The former Catholic nun (who oughtta know about guilt, after all) wouldn’t hear of it. Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Don’t fall for it, m… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Ro… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them a basic education, we can change the fabric of an entire community. If we can capture them in… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a s… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ She reached up and touched his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had a kind face—she could feel that he did. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Recognizing that people's reactions don't belong to you is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you've created, terrific. If people ignore what you've created, too bad. If people misunder… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Rajtam áll, mivel töltöm az időmet, kivel lépek kapcsolatba, kivel osztom meg a testem, az életem, a pénzem, az energiám. Kiválaszthatom, mit eszem, olvasok, tanulok. Eldönthetem, hogyan reagálok a ke… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Parvati and Shiva are the divine embodiment of creativity (the feminine) and consciousness (the masculine). She is the generative energy of the universe; he is its formless wisdom. Whatever Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Our whole business therefore in this life, wrote Saint Augustine, rather Yogically, is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. Elizabeth Gilbert
