You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability… — 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
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel… — 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
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. — 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
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It… — 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
