"Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county o...
... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~
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... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
More Elizabeth Gilbert quotes
"I 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.
"You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands ...
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should ...
"When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you...
"Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets...
"If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.
"Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in orde...
"I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicu...
"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, di...
"If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social ...
"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
"I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dism...