Trying Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head…

— Elizabeth Gilbert