The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the… — 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
He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — 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
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: “What’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment… — 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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