The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — 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
“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in… — 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
