Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies — Elizabeth Gilbert Different Copy Share Image
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. — Elizabeth Gilbert Impossible Copy Share Image
The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert Behinds Copy Share Image
Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir. — Elizabeth Gilbert Enough Copy Share Image
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Driving Copy Share Image
“double-pumpin' it" when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Inhale Desperate 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
“sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard” — Elizabeth Gilbert Best Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Clash Copy Share Image
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Always Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Catastrophe Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Behinds 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 Agitate 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
Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Changes Copy Share Image
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential, — Elizabeth Gilbert Devotion Copy Share Image
The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accepting Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Discipline Copy Share Image
“London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo one another culturally, architecturally, politically, fiscally.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Old lady Copy Share Image
I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Aspiring writers Copy Share Image
“But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Loved ones Copy Share Image
“You don't have to live like this because people tell you it's the only way. You're not handcuffed to your culture!” — Elizabeth Gilbert Culture Copy Share Image
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert Clever Copy Share Image
“In the end, it's all just violets trying to come to light.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Light Copy Share Image
I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. — Elizabeth Gilbert Masters Copy Share Image
“why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential” — Elizabeth Gilbert Essential 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
“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But” — Elizabeth Gilbert Sadness Copy Share Image
“a fight in the courts would be infinitely more expensive and time-consuming, not to mention soul-corroding.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Expensive Copy Share Image
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Wish Copy Share Image
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert Consequence Copy Share Image
“But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
“Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image