The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Clash 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
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Language Copy Share Image
Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Changes Copy Share Image
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, — Elizabeth Gilbert Devotion 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 Bliss Copy Share Image
It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Acceptable Copy Share Image
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bit Copy Share Image
“Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and albatross in equal measure. The only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Leaving Staying Copy Share Image
“The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Divine comedy Copy Share Image
Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Calling Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking… — Elizabeth Gilbert Theme park Copy Share Image
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably… — Elizabeth Gilbert Administrators 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 Charity Copy Share Image
“Revere your senses; don't degrade them with drugs, with depression, with willful oblivion. Try to notice something new every day, Eustace said.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bare feet Copy Share Image
“When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Agitate Copy Share Image
“What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Argument Copy Share Image
“This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Karma Copy Share Image
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost… — Elizabeth Gilbert Broken Copy Share Image
In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Infidel Copy Share Image
“This was simply not enough hours. This left far too many remaining hours free, and free hours were dangerous. Free hours created… — Elizabeth Gilbert Hours Dangerous Copy Share Image
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying… — Elizabeth Gilbert Access Copy Share Image
“Lapse saamine on umbes nagu oma näo tätoveerimine. Sa pead ikka raudselt kindel olema, et see on just see, mida sa tahad.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Amor Copy Share Image
“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ambivalence Copy Share Image
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Borrowing Copy Share Image
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before… — Elizabeth Gilbert Boxes Copy Share Image
“But this morning in meditation, after I heard the lion roar YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS, I came… — Elizabeth Gilbert Meditation Copy Share Image
“Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fortune Copy Share Image
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beats 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 Asking Copy Share Image
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accidents Copy Share Image
“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heart breaks Copy Share Image
Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head… — Elizabeth Gilbert Figures Copy Share Image
“One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Grief Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward… — Elizabeth Gilbert Commitment Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort… — Elizabeth Gilbert Aliens Copy Share Image
“I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Considered Difficult Copy Share Image
