Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes — Page 27

Author, Memoirist

Grieving

“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.”

Pain Grief Numbness

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

Optimistic

“Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.”

Believe Taken Prayer

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Happy

“I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.”

Boring Boring Life

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Adventurous

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”

Wave Transformation

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Wise

“You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.”

Years Patience Sheep

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Spiritual

“My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.”

Heart Spiritual Teacher

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Funny

“The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.”

Night Dog Misunderstood

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Love

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

Love Talking Heartbreak

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Curious

“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.”

Problem Travel Patient

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Funny

“Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?”

Thinking Looks Lunch

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Love

“To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”

Men Beautiful Italian

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Creative

“When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.”

Want Morning Creative

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