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
But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*. — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. — Elizabeth Gilbert Apologizing Copy Share Image
Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? — Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss Copy Share Image
“Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Eventually 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
“Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Peace Copy Share Image
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
“It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chicken soup 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
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Honestly Copy Share Image
“I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent---and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Silent Copy Share Image
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Choosing Copy Share Image
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anatomy 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 Acts of love Copy Share Image
“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Border Copy Share Image
“The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Luck Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts… — Elizabeth Gilbert Abandon Copy Share Image
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process… — Elizabeth Gilbert Care 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
“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
“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
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
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baseball 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
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
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
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beauty 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
“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Rest 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
“It all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Question Copy Share Image
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt… — Elizabeth Gilbert Jewels Copy Share Image