Elizabeth Gilbert Zitate

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„Ein Baby zu bekommen ist wie ein Tattoo auf deinem Gesicht zu bekommen. Sie müssen wirklich sicher sein, dass es das ist, was Sie wollen, bevor Sie sich verpflichten.“

„Dies ist ein gutes Zeichen, ein gebrochenes Herz zu haben. Es bedeutet, wir haben etwas versucht.“

„Das einzige, was undenkbarer war als zu gehen, war zu bleiben. das einzige, was unmöglicher war als zu bleiben, war zu gehen.“

„Ich wähle Glück statt Leid, ich weiß, dass ich das tue. Ich schaffe Platz für die unbekannte Zukunft, um mein Leben mit zu erwartenden Überraschungen zu füllen.“

„Von jemandem richtig gesehen zu werden und trotzdem geliebt zu werden - dies ist eine menschliche Gabe, das an ein Wunder grenzen kann.“

„Manchmal ist das Leben zu schwer, um alleine zu sein, und manchmal ist das Leben zu schön, um alleine zu sein.“

„Die Bhagavad Gita - dieser alte indische Yogatext - sagt, dass es besser ist, sein eigenes Schicksal unvollkommen zu leben, als eine Nachahmung des Lebens eines anderen mit Perfektion zu leben.“

„Eines Tages wirst du auf diesen Moment deines Lebens als solch eine süße Zeit der Trauer zurückblicken. Sie werden sehen, dass Sie trauerten und Ihr Herz gebrochen war, aber Ihr Leben veränderte sich …“

„Das ist die Sache mit einem menschlichen Leben - es gibt keine Kontrollgruppe, keine Möglichkeit, jemals zu erfahren, wie sich einer von uns entwickelt hätte, wenn irgendwelche Variablen geändert worden wären.“

„In verzweifelter Liebe erfinden wir immer die Charaktere unserer Partner, verlangen, dass sie das sind, was wir von ihnen brauchen, und fühlen uns dann am Boden zerstört, wenn sie sich weigern, die von uns geschaffene Rolle zu spielen.“

„Die Liebe, die die Sonne und die anderen Sterne bewegt.“

„In jedem ist ein Riss (oder Risse)… so kommt das Licht Gottes herein.“

„Ich denke, ich verdiene etwas Schönes.“

„Suche nach Gott, schlägt mein Guru vor. Suchen Sie nach Gott, wie ein Mann mit brennendem Kopf nach Wasser sucht.“

„Es geht alles weg. Schließlich geht alles weg.“

“He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.”

“Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”

“Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)”

“With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?”

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

“It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.”

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

“Life's metaphors are God's instructions.”

“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”

“The resting place of the mind is the heart.”

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

“the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.”

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

“For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.”

“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”

“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”

“This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

“Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.”

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”