So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He was playing a character I had invented, which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter in the least. Let people have their opinions. More than that—let people be in love with their opinions, just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — 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
