“We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!” — Elizabeth Gilbert Magnet Copy Share Image
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work … — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God” — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep. — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beauty 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 Healing Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Circles Copy Share Image
“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Interview Copy Share Image
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert Attention Copy Share Image
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Drama Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Access Copy Share Image
“I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen. The cave… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desire Copy Share Image
“Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. “I need to make my bones.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Italian Copy Share Image
“that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-’n’-” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. — Elizabeth Gilbert Girl Copy Share Image
“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Wind Copy Share Image
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him. — Elizabeth Gilbert Divorce Copy Share Image
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
“Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Infatuation Copy Share Image
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Delight Copy Share Image
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune Copy Share Image
