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
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
“I asked for so little!” she kept saying, as though her diminished demands alone should have protected her against any disappointments. But… — Elizabeth Gilbert Demands Copy Share Image
“We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affair 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
“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Murderous Irritable Copy Share Image
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Clearing Copy Share Image
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affair Copy Share Image
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Angry Copy Share Image
“Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Feelings Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss… — Elizabeth Gilbert Greenland Copy Share Image
“I want to have a lasting experience of God,” I told him. “Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desires Copy Share Image
“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Loneliness Copy Share Image
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Awake Copy Share Image
I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My… — Elizabeth Gilbert Assume Copy Share Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible… — Elizabeth Gilbert Answers Copy Share Image
“They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Left Loneliness Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buried Copy Share Image
“Third, nobody ever really listens to anybody else's complaints, anyhow, because we're all too focused on our own holy struggle, so basically… — Elizabeth Gilbert Brick wall Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beverages Copy Share Image
“I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Reputation Copy Share Image
“And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never… — Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy Copy Share Image
“I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bravery Copy Share Image
“Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).” — Elizabeth Gilbert Bali Copy Share Image
