I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“count your eggs while they’re still up inside the chicken’s ass,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? — Elizabeth Gilbert Bird Copy Share Image
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert Childlessness Copy Share Image
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. — Elizabeth Gilbert Destination Copy Share Image
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance. — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place.” — Elizabeth Gilbert First place Copy Share Image
These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alive Copy Share Image
Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don’t think… — Elizabeth Gilbert Marriage Copy Share Image
“The chickens look so plump and contented even in death that you imagine they offered themselves up for sacrifice proudly, after competing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Assurance Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think,… — Elizabeth Gilbert America Copy Share Image
But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every… — Elizabeth Gilbert Control Copy Share Image
“So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered -- one for each of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy of Mind 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
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Around the world Copy Share Image
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert Belief Copy Share Image
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Bali Copy Share Image
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Denial Copy Share Image
the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it ! — Elizabeth Gilbert Gardening Copy Share Image
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God. — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Family Copy Share Image
“Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Alaska Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Consequence Copy Share Image
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Human life Copy Share Image
