I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Acceptance Copy Share Image
“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better way Copy Share Image
“One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believe Copy Share Image
“Human beings have been creative beings for a really long time—long enough and consistently enough that it appears to be a totally… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Drug abuse 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 you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body image Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Crime 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 am… — Elizabeth Gilbert Confidence Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
“It matters./It doesn’t matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build… — Elizabeth Gilbert Paradox Copy Share Image
“With all respect to the Buddha and to the early Christian celibates, I sometimes wonder if all this teaching about nonattachment and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
“I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alarms 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 Believe Copy Share Image
“Show up for your own life, he said. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bare feet Copy Share Image
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Answers Copy Share Image
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change your life Copy Share Image
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide… — Elizabeth Gilbert Attitude Copy Share Image
“am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights… — Elizabeth Gilbert Awful Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“Clever, ambitious, and always in search of greater efficiency, we Americans have, in two short centuries, created a world of push button,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Modern conveniences Copy Share Image
“Also, he detested people who bought fast horses that they were unskilled to ride. Furthermore, he detested: recreational sailing vessels; surveyors; cheaply… — Elizabeth Gilbert Blue jays Copy Share Image
“Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying… — Elizabeth Gilbert Commitment Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alphas Copy Share Image
“A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change your life Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met… — Elizabeth Gilbert Check yourself Copy Share Image
“We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think… — Elizabeth Gilbert Thirties Copy Share Image
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Focus Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Benefits Copy Share Image
“We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better place Copy Share Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
“My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Faith Copy Share Image
People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chosen Copy Share Image
“I became one of those annoying people who always say Ciao! Only I was extra annoying, since I would always explain where… — Elizabeth Gilbert Annoying people Copy Share Image
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