“Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
“A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you… — 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
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
I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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
“Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen.” She went on to write that while the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As I listened to the other addicts share their life experiences, I began to hear the story of my own life, told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. —LORD PERCEVAL” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.' — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender. — 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
![“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David; settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place [the augusteum], at the chaos…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/elizabeth-gilbert-131_afraid-of-change_it-feels-like-a-precious-wound-like-a-he_2462471.jpg)
