Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes — Page 22

Author, Memoirist

Spiritual

“Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.”

Dark Faces Definitions

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

Philosophical

“In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.”

People Thinking Way

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Philosophical

“Let your conscience be your guide.”

Guides Animated Movies

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Love

“So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”

Thinking Light

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Melancholic

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”

Thinking Self Esteem Resentment

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Spiritual

“It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.”

Soul Helping Praying

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Spiritual

“We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”

Needs Hands Joy

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Vulnerable

“Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.”

Doors Our Relationship Civility

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Grieving

“It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Mean Heart Love Is

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Philosophical

“Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.”

Lying Fall Crazy

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Grateful

“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”

Mean Order Italian

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Confident

“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

Years Lasts Women

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