the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — 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
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
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a… — 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
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him… — 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
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
When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived—that is… — 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
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God’s face while wearing heavy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they… — 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
It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — 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
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
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