I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Wayan laughed and kissed her daughter, all the sadness about the divorce suddenly gone from her face.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I can cope with, and even somehow enjoy, the sinking melancholy of Venice, just for a few days. Somewhere in me I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me their badges. I know these guys very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured,” — 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