A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you. — 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
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? Reunited… — 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
“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
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A true soul mate is probably the most important person youll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, “What was I thinking?” and the answer is usually: You weren’t.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I knew then and I know now only what my heart feels to be true, you see - that without the love… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other… — 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
“A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son… — 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
“Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen… — 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
“But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman… — 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
“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
“You have been to hell, Ketut?" He smiled. Of course he's been there. What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven,"… — 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
“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send some love and light every time 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
“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