I am a better person when I have less on my plate. — Elizabeth Gilbert Better person 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 Delight Copy Share Image
The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked. — Elizabeth Gilbert Asked Copy Share Image
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert Heart Copy Share Image
I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. — Elizabeth Gilbert Administrators Copy Share Image
“Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Business Copy Share Image
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. — Elizabeth Gilbert Italian Copy Share Image
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me… — Elizabeth Gilbert Calm Copy Share Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believe 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 Contradiction 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Again Copy Share Image
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 Better person Copy Share Image
“Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may think of them and their supposed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Someday Copy Share Image
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Acting Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Christian Copy Share Image
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affection Copy Share Image
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had… — Elizabeth Gilbert Arms Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believer Copy Share Image
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful 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 Addiction Copy Share Image
“I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring… — Elizabeth Gilbert Monks Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dear god 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Circle of life Copy Share Image
“You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this despair?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bad behavior Copy Share Image
“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creating Copy Share Image
“If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Faith Copy Share Image