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
Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . . — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all… — 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
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — 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
The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our… — 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
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's… — 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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