Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student..

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life—collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.

She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing.

But why must everything always 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?

library is a beautiful old thing

We can do it, whether it can be done or not." Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place.

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.

What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor alongside me. The fact that I am here at all is evidence that I have the right to be here. I have a right to my own voice and a right to my own vision. I have a right to collaborate with creativity, because I myself am a product and a consequence of Creation.

Hush," she said. "I'm thinking at the top of my lungs.

Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline.

Martyr says: "Life is pain." Trickster says: "Life is interesting.

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.

Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

Beauty attracts beauty.

What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.

I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we follow a nice American custom here tonight by joining hands-and each in turn-saying what we are most grateful for. In three languages, then, this montage of gratitude comes forth, one testimony at a time.

This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was creeping upon her. She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.

There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie.

i honor the divinity that resides within me.