The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ... — Elizabeth Gilbert Hero Copy Share Image
“all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Grief Copy Share Image
“Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Gardening Copy Share Image
You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment. — Elizabeth Gilbert Adages Copy Share Image
Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She smiled sweetly at everyone and always acted like a total cooperator - but then she shaped her own world exactly to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes… — Elizabeth Gilbert Deer hunting Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her… — Elizabeth Gilbert Saddest Copy Share Image
“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Aspiring writers Copy Share Image
“At that point, Frank seemed to run out of words. There was somebody that he'd reminded me of, as he was spinning… — Elizabeth Gilbert Absolution Copy Share Image
“But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Loved ones Copy Share Image
Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Discipline Copy Share Image
“gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised” — Elizabeth Gilbert Trifles Copy Share Image
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard. — Elizabeth Gilbert Accountability Copy Share Image