the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — 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
What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the… — 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
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are… — 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
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing… — 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
![“Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da8/elizabeth-gilbert-131_bullets_then-my-mother-shocked-me-she-said-all-t_3072779.jpg)
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