I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — 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
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who… — 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process… — 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
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Image
I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image