Il bel far niente.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: lifestyle
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
Elizabeth GilbertLook for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
Elizabeth GilbertDevotion is diligence without assurance
Elizabeth GilbertThe appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
Elizabeth GilbertBut is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?
Elizabeth GilbertI am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.
Elizabeth GilbertNever forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: self-worth
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
Elizabeth GilbertThere's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: humor
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