If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with… — 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
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — 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
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — 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
There was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -… — 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
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack… — 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
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 think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would… — 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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