“Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
