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Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Rooms, Divine Power, States

I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Thinking, Light, Feet

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Funny, Accomplishment

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness, Fighting, Effort

This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Wise, Voice, Forever
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

Elizabeth Gilbert
Funny Love, Sanity

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Two, People, Ever After
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Goodbye, Kids, Thinking
"Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Laughing, Magic, Singing
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.24, A&C Black

Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love You, Thinking, Think Of You
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.227, 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

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Lying, Food, Order
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.81, A&C Black

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

Elizabeth Gilbert
Food, Simple, Trying

To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Happy Life, Simple, Surrender
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.41, A&C Black

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Elizabeth Gilbert
War, World, Legacy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.447, A&C Black

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

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Looks, Helping, Loving Myself
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Passion, Kissing, Night
"'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Jobs, Believe, Effort

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity, Lessons, Want

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Bones, Enough, Knows

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Believe, Writing, Expression
"Thoughts on Writing". www.elizabethgilbert.com.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Character, Pleasers

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Patience, Sheep, Years
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Lying, Years, Circles
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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