Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I want to be a good person. I don't want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.