Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call
Elizabeth GilbertI've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
Elizabeth GilbertI don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Elizabeth GilbertOnce Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?
Elizabeth Gilbert