To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert Age Copy Share Image
I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Adore Copy Share Image
“I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be… — Elizabeth Gilbert Easy Copy Share Image
When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond. — Elizabeth Gilbert Hands Copy Share Image
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful life Copy Share Image
[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked… — Elizabeth Gilbert Angel Copy Share Image
“She smiled sweetly at everyone and always acted like a total cooperator - but then she shaped her own world exactly to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Broken Copy Share Image
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert Behinds Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender — Elizabeth Gilbert Dear Copy Share Image
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Always Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Discipline Copy Share Image
“Then he said, “Strange…,” which is something you never want to hear from either your palm-reader or your dentist.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart...” — Elizabeth Gilbert Feet on the ground Copy Share Image
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Birthright Copy Share Image
He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Communication Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Fiction Copy Share Image
“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth-gilbert Copy Share Image