Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You don't like it?" asked Luca, who loves this stuff. "I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life," I said.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: “What’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
