He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Arms Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me—unfortunately for me. Jack Gilbert was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Poetry Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Always 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
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Angry Copy Share Image
“To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away… — Elizabeth Gilbert Good energy 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
“So, no, when I mention "tolerance", I'm not talking about learning how to stomach pure awfulness. What I am talking about is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
“If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Morning Copy Share Image
“At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Business Copy Share Image
“When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Psychology Copy Share Image
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life 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 Death Copy Share Image
“one of the reasons I was so free that year was because I was such a mess.” — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment. — Elizabeth Gilbert Adages Copy Share Image
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life. — Elizabeth Gilbert Capable Copy Share Image
“And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Hand in hand 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
“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
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Big deal Copy Share Image
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beauty Copy Share Image
“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Mosquitoes Copy Share Image
“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
