Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. 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
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In any case, our love is not a typical love, as is typically felt between men and women. We share something else… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It’s the same with relationships, I think. People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who… — 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
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
“We were so committed to solving this thing. Because how could two people so in love NOT end up happily ever after?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter in the least. Let people have their opinions. More than that—let people be in love with their opinions, just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you… — 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
