They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.
Elizabeth GilbertThe world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
Elizabeth GilbertTrue wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Elizabeth GilbertI have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
Elizabeth GilbertAccording to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.
Elizabeth Gilbert