“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My ultimate goal in recovery is not to end up in a healthy relationship with the perfect partner, my ultimate goal in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship. I get that. And I’ve certainly done that. I’ve mistaken… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My own sober dating plan is approximately three pages long, and it includes such items as “NO WEEKLONG FIRST DATES.” My plan… — 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
“As I listened to the other addicts share their life experiences, I began to hear the story of my own life, told… — 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
