It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still… — Elizabeth Gilbert Couture Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Courage Copy Share Image
“I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity Copy Share Image
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Craziness Copy Share Image
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries in the first place,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Boundaries Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely…Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
“how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? Reunited… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give… — Elizabeth Gilbert Authority Copy Share Image
“someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may think of them and their supposed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -… — 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
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Best friend Copy Share Image
“We were so committed to solving this thing. Because how could two people so in love NOT end up happily ever after?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. This act, the act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more… — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large… — Elizabeth Gilbert Choices Copy Share Image
“Trains running in every direction spit hot ash and cinders. Ministers and moralists feared that the vibrations and jostling of such fast… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fitness Copy Share Image
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Authority Copy Share Image
“But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As… — Elizabeth Gilbert Conflict Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Contradiction Copy Share Image
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me… — Elizabeth Gilbert Calm Copy Share Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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