But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 Copy Share Image
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 Copy Share Image
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. — 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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