Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My own sober dating plan is approximately three pages long, and it includes such items as “NO WEEKLONG FIRST DATES.” My plan… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — 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
“am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There is a prayer that we recite in those rooms that I love very much. It simply says, “Dear God—thank you for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. — 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
