It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
("Eat, Pray, Love")
More Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert:
I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we follow a nice American custom here tonight by joining hands-and each in turn-saying what we are most grateful for. In three languages, then, this montage of gratitude comes forth, one testimony at a time.Elizabeth Gilbert
Man is neither a puppet of the gods, nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny; he's a little of both.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?
Elizabeth Gilbert
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
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