I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest? — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — 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
