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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Art, Real, Lovely
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Destiny, Order, Swim

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiring, Quests, Ends

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspiring, Believe, Thinking

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've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Tattooed, Stills, Fronts
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing

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.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Dream, Wedding, White

I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Life, Giving Up, Religion

This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!

Elizabeth Gilbert
Heart, Eye, Broken
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.325, A&C Black

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Kissing, Encyclopedia
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.180, A&C Black

There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Pain, Grief, Numbness

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

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

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

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

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Air, Hands, Fire
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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

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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Powerful, Shadow, Died

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

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

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

What do I believe that I deserve in this life?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Believe, I Believe, This Life
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Clever, Longing, Shows
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.63, A&C Black

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