“Then he said, “Strange…,” which is something you never want to hear from either your palm-reader or your dentist.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Strange Copy Share Image
“We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Time Copy Share Image
“Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!” — Elizabeth Gilbert Magnet Copy Share Image
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work … — Elizabeth Gilbert Big fan Copy Share Image
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. — Elizabeth Gilbert Badges Copy Share Image
“What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God” — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep. — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Argument Copy Share Image
“This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Next time Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Behinds Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Always Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Clash Copy Share Image
It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Acceptable Copy Share Image
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss Copy Share Image
I completely respect the ways people are bound in the lives that they have, whether it's because of forces outside of their… — Elizabeth Gilbert Care Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dazzling Copy Share Image
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to… — Elizabeth Gilbert All alone Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
“Last spring, David had offered this crazy solution to our woes, only half in jest:... "What if we admitted that we make… — Elizabeth Gilbert Stop trying Copy Share Image
What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples… — Elizabeth Gilbert Arrangements Copy Share Image
“Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they'd ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Poetry Copy Share Image
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
