“Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything” — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat-pray-love Copy Share Image
“What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. —LORD PERCEVAL” — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“the Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Reflection Copy Share Image
You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Home Copy Share Image
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert Adages Copy Share Image
The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bible Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Best friend Copy Share Image
With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fall in love Copy Share Image
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss Copy Share Image
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affection Copy Share Image
“London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time—when pursued like a bandit—will behave like one; always… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As I listened to the other addicts share their life experiences, I began to hear the story of my own life, told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Expectations Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image