Liz Gilbert Quotes

Send me love and light every time you think of me…[to Stephen]

When I was in Italy, I learned a word “tutti,” which in Italian means “everybody.” So that’s the lesson, isn’t it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping Tutti.

We must take care of our families, wherever we find them.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins.[David]

The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic. It’s just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

It won’t last forever. Nothing does.

In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call “The Physics of the Quest.” A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

I used to have this appetite for food, for my life, and it is just gone. I wanna go someplace where l can marvel at something. Language, gelato, spaghetti, something.

I decided on my word. “Attraversiamo.” It means: “Let’s cross over.”[last lines]

I am so sick of people telling me I need a man.[Liz Gilbert]You don’t need a man, Liz. You need a champion.[Felipe]