Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 7

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men - for certain people - to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.