“The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once… — Elizabeth Gilbert Mother Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord - responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance 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 Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I believe, Miss Whittaker? Regarding your question on the origins of human compassion and self-sacrifice? I believe that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Compassion Copy Share Image
“We are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cold night Copy Share Image
“Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bad relationship Copy Share Image
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me their badges. I know these guys very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Depression Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called “Divorcées Without Borders.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better person Copy Share Image
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home… — Elizabeth Gilbert Christmas Copy Share Image
“it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy” — Elizabeth Gilbert Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asian Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Animal Copy Share Image
“Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: “What’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Bullshit Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Confidence Copy Share Image
![“I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on fire to get…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a85/elizabeth-gilbert-131_articles_i-worked-at-the-original-coyote-ugly-bar_1915039.jpg)
