Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

You must walk alone to find your soul.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

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

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.