Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world,” says an… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“With all respect to the Buddha and to the early Christian celibates, I sometimes wonder if all this teaching about nonattachment and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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