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“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.” (The Signature of All Things Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy’s distraction.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Nothing is so essential as dignity… Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“One must bear what cannot be escaped,” she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. “You will not die of your grief – no more than the rest of us ever have.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.” (The Signature of All Things Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate of nations were at stake in every instance.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit?”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“The most urgent war is always the one fought at home”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it–even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.” (The Signature of All Things Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“This was simply not enough hours. This left far too many remaining hours free, and free hours were dangerous. Free hours created too much opportunity for examining the disappointments she was meant to be grinding under her boot heel.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely….Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
“Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
