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I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experie...
GILBERT HIGHET
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
GILBERT SELDES
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
JACK GILBERT
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT
All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
GILBERT SELDES
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic...
GILBERT GEORGE
Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY
When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING
We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT
I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching sta...
DAN GILBERT
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT
A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I alm...
DAN GILBERT
Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT