“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune 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 Delight Copy Share Image
I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. — Elizabeth Gilbert Boring Copy Share Image
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. — Elizabeth Gilbert Doe Copy Share Image
“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Infatuation Copy Share Image
I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness! — Elizabeth Gilbert Eye Copy Share Image
“There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication? — Elizabeth Gilbert Complication Copy Share Image
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Depression Copy Share Image
“If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bloom Copy Share Image
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings… — Elizabeth Gilbert Attention Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddha Copy Share Image
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cheaper 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… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bears Copy Share Image
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 Baths Copy Share Image
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want… — Elizabeth Gilbert Afraid of change Copy Share Image
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add… — Elizabeth Gilbert Add Copy Share Image
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ancient Copy Share Image
Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ancestor 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 Age Copy Share Image
He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Arms Copy Share Image
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. — Elizabeth Gilbert Real Copy Share Image
“Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana… “From the center of my life, there came a great fountain…” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fountain Copy Share Image
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. — Elizabeth Gilbert Apologizing Copy Share Image
“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Child Copy Share Image
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. — Elizabeth Gilbert Funny Copy Share Image
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. — Elizabeth Gilbert Italian Copy Share Image
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard. — Elizabeth Gilbert Certain Copy Share Image
If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. — Elizabeth Gilbert Earth Copy Share Image
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. — Elizabeth Gilbert Chicken Copy Share Image
I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check… — Elizabeth Gilbert Checks Copy Share Image
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand. — Elizabeth Gilbert Giving Copy Share Image
What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image