Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 18

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• I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Bliss, Chasing, Whole Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.190, A&C Black

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• Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Thinking, Ego

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.175, A&C Black

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• Let your conscience be your guide.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Guides, Wish Upon A Star, Animated Movies

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.295, A&C Black

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• Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Dust, Humanity

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hard, Ifs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.156, A&C Black

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• Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stories, Delight, Belly

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.277, A&C Black

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• If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Earth, Ifs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.147, A&C Black

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• But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, People, Dresses

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.281, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mean, Simple, Tables

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.91, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The resting place of the mind is the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Mind, Eat Love Pray

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Venice, Want

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.100, A&C Black

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• The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Silly, People

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• Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Women, Years, Lasts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, A&C Black

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• Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Moving, Past, Helping

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• I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Simple, People, Want

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

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• We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Ideas, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, Energy, Different

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self, Finals, Infatuation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Guilt, Alarms, Feels

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.67, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• the beauty of doing nothing

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Doing Nothing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Passion, Mean, Eye

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spring, Order, Flying

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Dad, Sacrifice

  "Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2007.

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• The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Talking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.456, A&C Black

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• Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Girlfriend, Travel, Husband

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.447, A&C Black

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