Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. — Elizabeth Gilbert Backbone Copy Share Image
“We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas. — Elizabeth Gilbert Attention Copy Share Image
It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. — Elizabeth Gilbert Blessing Copy Share Image
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy Copy Share Image
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me. — Elizabeth Gilbert Divinity Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert History Copy Share Image
“But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be… — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anxiety Copy Share Image
Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Circus Copy Share Image
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ancient Copy Share Image
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
