“Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My ultimate goal in recovery is not to end up in a healthy relationship with the perfect partner, my ultimate goal in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“I love him and therefore I want to protect him -- even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ambitious Copy Share Image
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert Differences Copy Share Image
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Character Copy Share Image
“So the question is not so much "What are you passionate about?" The question is "What are you passionate enough about that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Crime Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
“Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, 'Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I am… — Elizabeth Gilbert Confidence Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body image Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Drug abuse Copy Share Image
“My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Faith Copy Share Image
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better place Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creative life Copy Share Image
I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away… — Elizabeth Gilbert Good energy Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Being married Copy Share Image
I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Character Copy Share Image
“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — Elizabeth Gilbert Earth 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 Life Copy Share Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Focus Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met… — Elizabeth Gilbert Check yourself Copy Share Image
“We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think… — Elizabeth Gilbert Thirties Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alphas Copy Share Image
“A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change your life Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
