[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. — Elizabeth Gilbert Italian Copy Share Image
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Admire Copy Share Image
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 Life is Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Devote Copy Share Image
“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In the search for God, you revert from what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Hope Copy Share Image
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Long marriage Copy Share Image
“U svijetu nereda, nesreća i prijevare katkad je moguće vjerovati samo ljepoti. Samo je umjetnička izvrsnost nepotkupljiva. Užitku nije moguće spustiti cijenu.… — 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 Around the world Copy Share Image
My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Important Copy Share Image
“George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Artwork Copy Share Image
What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
“Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Humor Copy Share Image
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
“The Bat Phone to the Universe," some kind of Iva-only, open-round-the-clock special channel to the divine.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Humor Copy Share Image
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Able Copy Share Image
I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Changed Copy Share Image
Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because… — Elizabeth Gilbert Admirable Copy Share Image
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert Attention Copy Share Image
“And naturally I was reading in the library a few days later from a book about the Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication? — Elizabeth Gilbert Complication Copy Share Image