Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

• And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.113, A&C Black

• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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