Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.