I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — 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 don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — 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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