Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.