Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
Elizabeth GilbertThere is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
Elizabeth GilbertWhen the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.
Elizabeth GilbertEvery few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
Elizabeth GilbertWhen I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.
Elizabeth Gilbert