When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.
Elizabeth GilbertIt is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
Elizabeth GilbertBut if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
Elizabeth GilbertHappiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
Elizabeth GilbertAstonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.
Elizabeth Gilbert