“Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Adrift Copy Share Image
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard. — Elizabeth Gilbert Certain Copy Share Image
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Comic Copy Share Image
“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Child labor Copy Share Image
“Some people like to argue about God.” “Not necessary,” he said. “I have good idea, for if you meet some person from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Religion Copy Share Image
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work … — Elizabeth Gilbert Big fan Copy Share Image
You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fall apart Copy Share Image
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better place 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 Courage Copy Share Image
“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and morality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear 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 Responsibility Copy Share Image
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Reason Copy Share Image
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Articles Copy Share Image
“We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Dreams 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
“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
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
“To those I love: I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Depression Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Causes Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beauty Copy Share Image