At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times - a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and to those… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — 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
“So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I choose to trust that inspiration is always nearby, the whole time I'm working, trying its damnedest to impart assistance. [...] Sometimes… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a… — 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
