Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

Now for some heartwork.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.