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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.


Elizabeth Gaskell

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ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT