Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Number three is always fortunate.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

Everything in nature has found a niche, a perfect harmony of balance. Man need to find his niche, his perfect balance, where he fits in the natural cycle