There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — 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
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As… — 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
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. — 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
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the… — 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
