The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. — Elizabeth Gilbert Achievement Copy Share Image
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. — Elizabeth Gilbert Dinner Copy Share Image
“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Guilt Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Fiction Copy Share Image
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heart Copy Share Image
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Adventurer Copy Share Image
“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human… — Elizabeth Gilbert Human experience Copy Share Image
“A stranger came out to White Acre one day to sell Henry a pony, for Alma to learn to ride. The pony's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity Copy Share Image
“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ambition Copy Share Image
“This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page: I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert God will provide Copy Share Image
“You are free, because everyone is too busy fussing over themselves to worry all that much about you. Go be whomever you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ceremony Copy Share Image
“At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert Emotions Copy Share Image
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“That's right I was speaking to the creator of universe as though we had just been introduced at a cocktail party.” — elizabeth gilbert Copy Share Image
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. — Elizabeth Gilbert Depression Copy Share Image
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert Healing Copy Share Image
“Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Krishna Copy Share Image
If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Couples Copy Share Image
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on. — Elizabeth Gilbert Failure Copy Share Image
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said. — Elizabeth Gilbert People Copy Share Image
“Honey -- even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women. — Elizabeth Gilbert Hero Copy Share Image
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful life Copy Share Image
