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Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Loneliness, Stronger, Eat Love Pray
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.56, A&C Black

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sunshine, Walks, Streets
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Angel, Differences, Solitude
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.305, A&C Black

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Honor, Divinity, Eat Love Pray
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.26, A&C Black

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Tough Times, Crumbling

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

Elizabeth Gilbert
Purpose, Acquiring Things, Discovering

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Blessing, Follow Your Dreams, Eat Love Pray
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

Elizabeth Gilbert
Needs, Answers, Care
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Acceptance, Offering
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Hard Times, Crumbling

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness, Space, Suffering
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.87, A&C Black

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beach, Answers, Ready
"Elizabeth Gilbert On The Ugly Truth About Following Your Passion", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2014.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Healing, Solitude, Looks
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Life, Emotional
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.127, A&C Black

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Romantic, Depression
"Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Relationship, Family, Years
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love You, Balance, One Love

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Meant To Be

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Being Alone
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness, Being Yourself, Powerful

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

Elizabeth Gilbert
Faith, Powerful, Father Son

I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Jobs, Creativity, Voice

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Family, Home, Care
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

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