The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. — Elizabeth Gilbert Cryptic Copy Share Image
I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!! — Elizabeth Gilbert I love myself Copy Share Image
“Everything- for no reason whatsoever- is perfect.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Intelligence Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Admittedly Copy Share Image
“I’ve never stood on a piece of ground as throbbingly, even pornographically, generative.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Pornographically Copy Share Image
“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Committed Copy Share Image
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian. — Elizabeth Gilbert Autonomous Copy Share Image
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
“Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Peace Copy Share Image
“Be brave. Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Courage Copy Share Image
When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond. — Elizabeth Gilbert Hands Copy Share Image
“My ultimate goal in recovery is not to end up in a healthy relationship with the perfect partner, my ultimate goal in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Causes 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cease Copy Share Image
“Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cease Copy Share Image
Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Admitting Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Attainment Copy Share Image
“This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert History Copy Share Image
“But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be… — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anxiety Copy Share Image
Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three… — Elizabeth Gilbert Answers Copy Share Image
“Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love… — Elizabeth Gilbert Christian Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ancient Copy Share Image
We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Circus Copy Share Image
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chains Copy Share Image