I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home… — Elizabeth Gilbert Christmas Copy Share Image
I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better person Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called “Divorcées Without Borders.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Contradiction Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chosen Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Convince Copy Share Image
“Boehme makes such leaps, such contradictions, such confusions of thought. It is as though he wishes to vault directly into heaven upon… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alma-whittaker Copy Share Image
“What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice… — Elizabeth Gilbert Big fan Copy Share Image
Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years… — Elizabeth Gilbert Companion Copy Share Image
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bigs Copy Share Image
“I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat-pray-love Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Brushes Copy Share Image
Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Biology Copy Share Image
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Again Copy Share Image
“For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
“The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once… — Elizabeth Gilbert Mother Copy Share Image
All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me… — Elizabeth Gilbert Calm Copy Share Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believe Copy Share Image
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Behalf Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord - responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anxiety Copy Share Image
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Bitter Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Collide Copy Share Image
“Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Confidence Copy Share Image
“When I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity Copy Share Image
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why… — Elizabeth Gilbert Am Copy Share Image
“Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth-gilbert Copy Share Image
“At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much… — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Individual Copy Share Image
“God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Distant Copy Share Image
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asian 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
It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Animal Copy Share Image
“it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy” — Elizabeth Gilbert Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
