“Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — 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
People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder:… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with boundaries, one must have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries in the first place,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can… — 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 ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently lost it) know full well the suffering of which the Buddah spoke. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of… — 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 have the potential to breed their own brand of trouble. We are susceptible to emotional uncertainties and neuroses that are probably not very common among the Hmong, but that run rampant these days among my contemporaries… — 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 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 have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery,… — 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 might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or… — 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 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 sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
