Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

Cómo consiguen los supervivientes de una relación soportar el sufrimiento de un asunto inacabado? Desde

Tienes que aprender a convertirte en alguien mediocre, pero profundamente disciplinado.

I want to have a lasting experience of God," I told him. "Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the cneter of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere--wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, "No genuine book has a first page. Like the rustling of the forest, it is begotten God knows where, and it grows and it rolls, arousing the dense wilds of the forest until suddenly . . . it begins to speak with all the treetops at once.

You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your husband, but now you look like David. You even dress like him and talk like him. You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men.

I want you to figure out a way to stop that from happening.

What does any of that have to do with the quiet glory of merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations? I

Everything- for no reason whatsoever- is perfect.

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere--wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness.

just because people can hear each other across the divide does not mean they can necessarily understand each other

Keep in mind that for most of history people just made things, and they didn't make such a big freaking deal out of it. We make things because we like making things. We pursue the interesting and the novel because we like the interesting and the novel.

And yet Boehme said that God had pressed Himself into the world, and had left marks there for us to discover.

Our ancestors always operated with a sense of being in a reciprocal emotional relationship with their physical surroundings. Whether they felt that they were being rewarded by Mother Nature or punished by her, at least they were engaged in a constant conversation with her.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling.

In India, just so you know, May 3 is National Broken Hearts Day. And in Papua New Guinea, there exists a tribe whose men write mournful love songs called namai, which tell the tragic stories of marriages which never came to pass but should have.

That s what her mother said 'Stop your weeping and carry on

Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

If what I've written here ends up helping you, that's great, and I will be glad. That would be a wonderful side effect. But at the end of the day, I do what I do because I like doing it.

But to suggest that nobody ever made valuable art unless they were in active emotional distress is not only untrue, it's also kind of sick.

the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

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.

So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.