Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Devotion

Quotes about: Devotion

• Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Understanding, Saying Yes, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

• Devotion is diligence without assurance

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Devotion, Diligence, Assurance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

• Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don't know - Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Motivational, Love You, Adventure

• Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Definitions, Faces

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Devotion, Intersections

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Country, Art

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Energy, Devotion

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' Author Elizabeth Gilbert Gave A Fascinating TED Talk On The Dark Side Of Success" by Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. March 20, 2014.

• I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Stress, Years

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