“If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit… — Elizabeth Gilbert Do something 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
“You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We know now that all the people of Polynesia carry taro root and coconut palm and breadfruit with them when they settle… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book-title Copy Share Image
“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can… — Elizabeth Gilbert American society Copy Share Image
“The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cats Copy Share Image
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by… — Elizabeth Gilbert Adventure Copy Share Image
“He was playing a character I had invented, which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desperate Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Luck Copy Share Image
“There is not a street in Naples in which some tough little kid in shorts and mismatched socks is not screaming up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The… — Elizabeth Gilbert Big questions Copy Share Image
“Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Advancement Copy Share Image
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Faith Copy Share Image
“If you clear out all that space in your mind that you’re using right now to obsess about this guy, you’ll have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Psychology Copy Share Image
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accidents Copy Share Image
Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best… — Elizabeth Gilbert Child Copy Share Image
“The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affection Copy Share Image
Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Age Copy Share Image
“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health… — Elizabeth Gilbert Culture-identity Copy Share Image
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
“You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Erasure Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Correspondence Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Countries Copy Share Image
![“The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs. I love Italy.” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ee/elizabeth-gilbert-131_fans_the-lazio-fans-always-stop-at-the-bakery_2319677.jpg)
![“Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham].” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ed5/elizabeth-gilbert-131_correspondence_just-having-walked-into-a-prison-environ_2832048.jpg)
