“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
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans… — 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
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — 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
“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
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of… — 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
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I find these days that all I want for Rayya anymore—if you can be said to want anything for somebody who has… — 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 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
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what… — 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
“Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you… — 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
“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“He was playing a character I had invented, which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — 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
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
