Elizabeth Gilbert

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.