You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience… — 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
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 decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to… — 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
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — 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 promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — 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
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