Elizabeth Gilbert Quotations | Page 3

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Your tears are my prayers.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.