Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

Our planet is inhabited not only by animals, and planets, and bacteria, but also ideas. Ideas are a disembodied energetic life-form. They are completely separated from us but capable of interacting with us.

Go out there and love them hard...

it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy

Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: "You think you can scare me off? I've got another eighty years to wear you down! There are people who haven't even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday—that's how long I plan to stick around.

Life was just unbelievably happy.

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 own 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.

Heaven is love, then hell is love, too.

Polly was the same age as Alma, but daintier and startlingly beautiful. She looked like a perfect figurine carved out of fine French soap, into which someone had inlaid a pair of glittering peacock-blue eyes. But it was the tiny pink pillow of her mouth that made this girl more than simply pretty; it made her an unsettling little voluptuary, a Bathsheba wrought in miniature.

Everybody imitates before they can innovate.

Há uma piada italiana muito engraçada sobre um homem pobre que vai todos os dias à igreja rezar diante da estátua de um grande santo, implorando: «Querido santo, por favor, por favor, por favor... dá-me a graça de ganhar a lotaria.» Este lamento continua durante meses. Por fim, a estátua exasperada ganha vida, olha para ele e diz com um ar fatigado: «Meu filho, por favor, por favor, por favor... compra um bilhete.»

Autoritativno, poput lije?nice, na prste je nabrojala šest sastavnica pouzdane terapije za slomljeno srce: Vitamin E, mnogo spavati, piti mnogo vode, otputovati daleko od osobe koju si volio, meditirati i objasniti srcu da je to njegova sudbina.

I always try to remind myself that I am having an affair with my creativity, and I make an effort to present myself to inspiration like somebody you might actually want to have an affair with—not

I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along.

It's all just a game.

Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize the distinction.

I tried to look like someone who was busy expanding her horizons and building her character through intentional fraternization with her social inferiors. A difficult look to master in a single facial expression, but I did my best.

So sadness is a place? Sometimes people live there for years

Dios vive en ti, como vives tu y es exactamente como eres tu

Cuando se acaba el karma de una relación, sólo queda el AMOR

El gran amor de mi vida es viajar

We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker

Die Leute meinen, ein Seelenfreund sei jemand, der perfekt zu einem passt, und genau das wünschen sich alle. Aber ein wirklicher Seelenfreund ist ein Spiegel, ist der Mensch, der dir alles zeigt, was dich hemmt, der dir zeigt, wer du bist, damit du dein Leben ändern kannst. Ein wahrer Seelenfreund ist wahrscheinlich der wichtigste Mensch, den du je treffen wirst, weil er deine Mauern niederreißt und dich ohrfeigt, bis du aufwachst.

We were too distracted by our own story to pay much attention to all the wonders that were laid before us.