“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want… — Elizabeth Gilbert Afraid of change Copy Share Image
“My ultimate goal in recovery is not to end up in a healthy relationship with the perfect partner, my ultimate goal in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Indulge yourself Copy Share Image
“Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!” — Elizabeth Gilbert Romance-novels Copy Share Image
“He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
“Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything” — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ascension Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Grief Copy Share Image
“I tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Living room Copy Share Image
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“But gay marriage is coming to America first and foremost because marriage here is a secular concern, not a religious one. The… — Elizabeth Gilbert Coming to america Copy Share Image
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert Done Copy Share Image
Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Accuracy Copy Share Image
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. — Elizabeth Gilbert Decision Copy Share Image
“When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, “What was I thinking?” and the answer is usually: You weren’t.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Awareness Copy Share Image
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accidents Copy Share Image
I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believe Copy Share Image
whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off — Elizabeth Gilbert Alarms Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word… — Elizabeth Gilbert Doubt Copy Share Image
“Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat-pray-love 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 think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Career Copy Share Image
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asking Copy Share Image