To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beauty 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
“central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future… — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
“To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Language Copy Share Image
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. — Elizabeth Gilbert Blessing Copy Share Image
“Autoritativno, poput liječnice, na prste je nabrojala šest sastavnica pouzdane terapije za slomljeno srce: Vitamin E, mnogo spavati, piti mnogo vode, otputovati… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity Copy Share Image
“Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desire Copy Share Image
I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. — Elizabeth Gilbert Real Copy Share Image
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic… — Elizabeth Gilbert Age Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Attainment 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
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
“The chickens look so plump and contented even in death that you imagine they offered themselves up for sacrifice proudly, after competing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
“I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we… — Elizabeth Gilbert Gratitude Copy Share Image
“There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
“I want to have a lasting experience of God,” I told him. “Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear 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 have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel… — Elizabeth Gilbert Being there Copy Share Image
Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. — Elizabeth Gilbert Energy Copy Share Image
“believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived—that is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image