Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Belly Copy Share Image
“Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: “What’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Bullshit Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience… — Elizabeth Gilbert Disorder Copy Share Image
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Feels Copy Share Image
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Comprehend Copy Share Image
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Behinds Copy Share Image
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity Copy Share Image
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Craziness Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Causes Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries in the first place,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Boundaries Copy Share Image
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Silent Augusteum Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize… — Elizabeth Gilbert Brave Copy Share Image
“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Answers Copy Share Image
“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Despair Copy Share Image
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Acres Copy Share Image
“Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Humor Copy Share Image
“Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Truth Copy Share Image
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Century Copy Share Image
“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bhagavad gita Copy Share Image
“Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with… — Elizabeth Gilbert David Copy Share Image
“When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, “What was I thinking?” and the answer is usually: You weren’t.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dangerous Copy Share Image
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
“There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Endurance Copy Share Image
The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided… — Elizabeth Gilbert Common Copy Share Image
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely…Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There… — Elizabeth Gilbert Deep Copy Share Image
I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Articles Copy Share Image
“The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In the search for God, you revert from what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Hope Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Aroma Copy Share Image
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Breathing Copy Share Image
And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ankles Copy Share Image