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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Self Worth, Once Upon A Time, Never Forget
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.56, A&C Black

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Husband
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.391, A&C Black

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

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

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Novelists, Would Be, Pace
Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Reason, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Dangerous World, Practice, Insanity
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Fall, Fate, Odds
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Yoga, Self, Inner Peace
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

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

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Jobs, Pieces, Might
"Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Looks, May, Imperfect
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

God dwells within you, as you.

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

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love You, Home, World

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Disappointment, Good Life, Endure
"Finding Cosmos in a Bed of Moss: Our Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert". Interview With Mari Malcolm, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 30, 2013.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Life, Beauty, Beautiful
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Karma, Moving, Heaven
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.246, A&C Black

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Overcoming, Overcoming Fear, Boring
"Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Fear Is The Most Boring Thing About You", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2014.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Metaphor, Instruction
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Destiny, Perfection, Looks
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Peace, Crazy, Passion
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Moving, Light, Keep Moving
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Spiritual, Dark, Together
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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