Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 21

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• If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Swim, Castles, Moats

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• Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sorry, Husband, Italian

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• I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Boring, Boring Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.291, A&C Black

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• He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Focus, Everyday

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.201, A&C Black

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• He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, Shadow, Died

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• Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Sharks, Sea

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• Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Distraction, Accuracy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.61, A&C Black

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• 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

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• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Magic

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

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• I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Years, Accomplishment

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

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• To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Two

  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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• I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Energy, Enthusiasm

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.94, A&C Black

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• Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Balance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Your tears are my prayers.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Tears

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Listening, Scream

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• Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Addiction, Stories, Love Story

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

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• That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Broken, Ego, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.134, A&C Black

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• But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Great Love, Needs, Someday

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.86, A&C Black

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• the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Numbers, Perfect, Balance

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• A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lovely, Mozzarella, Evening

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.10, A&C Black

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• It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sides, Wonder, Used

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.330, A&C Black

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wall, What Is Love, Soul

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Baby, Love Of My Life

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• But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Sleep, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Who I Am, Ideas, May

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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