Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Child Copy Share Image
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. — Elizabeth Gilbert Funny Copy Share Image
I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness! — Elizabeth Gilbert Blind Copy Share Image
“There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Freedom Copy Share Image
“She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Heart Copy Share Image
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ascension Copy Share Image
If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Discernment Copy Share Image
Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are… — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And while the paths and outcomes of creative living will vary wildly from person to person, I can guarantee you this: A… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dark times Copy Share Image
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accidents Copy Share Image
“Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times - a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and to those… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I asked for so little!” she kept saying, as though her diminished demands alone should have protected her against any disappointments. But… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*. — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana… “From the center of my life, there came a great fountain…” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be… — 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
“It all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The human mind, if dutifully trained, should be able to perform anything we ask of it. It is all just a matter… — Elizabeth Gilbert Human mind Copy Share Image
We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another… — Elizabeth Gilbert Giving Copy Share Image
The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddha Copy Share Image