longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent---and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Trains running in every direction spit hot ash and cinders. Ministers and moralists feared that the vibrations and jostling of such fast… — 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
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of… — 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 Copy Share Image
“When you are walking down the road in Bali and your pass a stranger, the very first question he or she will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of… — 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