The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
Elizabeth GilbertYour emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Elizabeth GilbertWhen you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you donโt know when youโll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
Elizabeth GilbertThere was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said, "You'll never know what you'll do when you're in a fire." Everyone else was like: "I don't care; I would have saved my children; I could have done it. Even if I was asleep I would have woken up and saved my children." But the fireman said, "You never know what's going to happen unless you're in there."
Elizabeth Gilbert