“Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Psychology Copy Share Image
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Character Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Deserve 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
“My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
“Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Loneliness Copy Share Image
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me. — Elizabeth Gilbert Divinity Copy Share Image
“But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God’s face while wearing heavy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Action Copy Share Image
“Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. — Elizabeth Gilbert Castles Copy Share Image
“There is not a street in Naples in which some tough little kid in shorts and mismatched socks is not screaming up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Human life Copy Share Image
“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Family Copy Share Image
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Charity Copy Share Image
“He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live… — Elizabeth Gilbert Borders 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 Bigger Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring… — Elizabeth Gilbert Grilling Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t I proud of all we accomplished–the prestigious home in the Hudson Valley, the apartment in Manhattan, the eight phone lines, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Every moment Copy Share Image
Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. — Elizabeth Gilbert Funny Copy Share Image
