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All Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes Accomplishment Addiction Art Authority Balance Being Alone Being Single Bliss Bones Character Children Choices Compassion Contentment Country Courage Creativity Curiosity Depression Desire Destiny Devotion Dignity Disappointment Discipline Divorce Earth Effort Ego Energy Expectations Faith Falling In Love Family Fate Feelings Fighting Flying Focus Food Giving Giving Up Grace Greek Grief Growing Up Guilt Happiness Hard Work Healing Heart Heartbreak Heaven Home Honor Hope House Humanity Husband Inspirational quotes Inspiring Intimacy Journey Joy Leaving Letting Go Life Loneliness Lost Love Love Lying Madness Magic Marriage Meditation Metaphor Mom Morning Motivational Opportunity Pain Passion Past Perfection Pleasure Prayer Purpose Reading Reality Religion Resentment Running Sacrifice Sanity School Silence Sleep Solitude Soul Struggle Suffering Surrender Today Tragedy Transformation Trauma Travel Universe Waiting Wall War Water Wife Worry Writing Yoga
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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Tough Times, Crumbling

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

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

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

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Funny, Girl
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.23, A&C Black

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Inspirational, Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.32, A&C Black

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Travel, Sacrifice
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.42, A&C Black

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Inspirational, Learning Something New, Liz
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.59, A&C Black

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