Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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 in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Prayer, Fog

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Falling In Love, Moving, Choices

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

• We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Perfection, Silence

• I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Religion

• You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Desire, Desire For Success, Recognition

  "Thoughts on Writing" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.elizabethgilbert.com. February 24, 2011.

• There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, Decision, Desire

• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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