“C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, “We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Marriage Copy Share Image
“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Religion Copy Share Image
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress. — Elizabeth Gilbert Distress Copy Share Image
“The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Authenticity Copy Share Image
Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. — Elizabeth Gilbert Energy Copy Share Image
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Wish Copy Share Image
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Facts Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start… — Elizabeth Gilbert Light Copy Share Image
“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Habits Copy Share Image
“Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source… — Elizabeth Gilbert Mind and body 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
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Failure Copy Share Image
“It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chicken soup Copy Share Image
“believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived—that is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Intimacy Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather… — Elizabeth Gilbert Around the world Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Choice Copy Share Image
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“a fight in the courts would be infinitely more expensive and time-consuming, not to mention soul-corroding.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Sadness Copy Share Image
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — 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
“You don't have to live like this because people tell you it's the only way. You're not handcuffed to your culture!” — Elizabeth Gilbert Culture Copy Share Image
“double-pumpin' it" when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Driving Copy Share Image
“In the end, it's all just violets trying to come to light.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Light Copy Share Image
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert Clever Copy Share Image
What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be? — Elizabeth Gilbert Giving Copy Share Image
“I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Future Copy Share Image
