Elizabeth Gilbert

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spirituality #love

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

You should never give yourself the chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice being strong instead.  ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love