Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Worry

Quotes about: Worry

• We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Fate, Two

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

• Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kindness, Crazy, Destiny

• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

• Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Writing, Worry

  "Lighten up on yourself to have a better life" By Elizabeth Gilber, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2010.

• My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Worry, Giver, Whole Life

  "Confessions of an over-giver" By Elizabeth Gilbert, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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