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Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Faith, Christian, Dark
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Trust, Dream, Hope

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Rivers, Firsts, Clean
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.61, A&C Black

I believe in a magnificent God.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Believe, I Believe, I Believe In
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

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

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Clever, Fall
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Light, Good Friday

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Running, Divorce, Doors
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

The only boring people I know are bored people.

Elizabeth Gilbert
People, Bored, Boring

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

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

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Dog, Book, Feet

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Heart, Sleep, Destiny
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.276, Bloomsbury Publishing

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Clearing Out, People, Way
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.273, Bloomsbury Publishing

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Wall, Mean
"Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Rain, Giving, Sun
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Drama, Attention, Massive

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Falling In Love, Bird, May
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.323, A&C Black

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Able, Today, Tomorrow
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

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

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Nice, Book, Weekend

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

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

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Balance, Sometimes
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.312, Bloomsbury Publishing

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

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

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Prayer, Book, Glasses
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Real, Sleep, Chance
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.53, A&C Black

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