I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool,… — 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
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — 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
The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart… — 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