“We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Time 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
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness! — Elizabeth Gilbert Eye Copy Share Image
“we must find the patience and resignation to endure our challenges as they arise to meet us.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Patience 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 Next time Copy Share Image
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Can do 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
“Honey -- even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Control issues Copy Share Image
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asks Copy Share Image
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anguish Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Feels Copy Share Image
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? — Elizabeth Gilbert Bird Copy Share Image
“Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Different choices Copy Share Image
A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of… — Elizabeth Gilbert 19th century Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I believe, Miss Whittaker? Regarding your question on the origins of human compassion and self-sacrifice? I believe that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Compassion Copy Share Image
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. — Elizabeth Gilbert Civility Copy Share Image
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss Copy Share Image
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.' — Elizabeth Gilbert Accelerate Copy Share Image
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans… — Elizabeth Gilbert And love 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
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert About Copy Share Image