I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Longing Copy Share Image
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).” — Elizabeth Gilbert Bali Copy Share Image
“I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bravery Copy Share Image
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably… — Elizabeth Gilbert Administrators Copy Share Image
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Charity Copy Share Image
Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dante Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking… — Elizabeth Gilbert Theme park Copy Share Image
Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Biology Copy Share Image
“I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat-pray-love Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beverages Copy Share Image
“I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Reputation Copy Share Image
“And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never… — Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy Copy Share Image
“But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send some love and light every time you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She’s got this ability to shut me up when I start fretting over metaphysical questions, such as, “What is the nature of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Metaphysical Copy Share Image
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Autonomous Copy Share Image
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything” — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Afraid of change Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere… — Elizabeth Gilbert Expectations Copy Share Image
When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image