Quote

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Entire
Happiness
Whole
Time
Life
Wondered
Chasing
Bliss

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Let your conscience be your guide.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince I was the administrator of my own rescue.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!
Elizabeth Gilbert