To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert Clever Copy Share Image
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
“sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“double-pumpin' it" when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.” — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Infatuation Copy Share Image
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heart Copy Share Image
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accomplishment Copy Share Image
I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“but she was old, and old women do tend to get pushed aside at big gatherings—even when they have footed the bill… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better place Copy Share Image
“I tell you, Becker," Henry said, "if you make me eat mutton one more night this week, I will have someone shot."… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desire Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Nature Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ambition Copy Share Image
“You are free, because everyone is too busy fussing over themselves to worry all that much about you. Go be whomever you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert God will provide Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself… — Elizabeth Gilbert Delight 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 Fortune Copy Share Image
“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Wind Copy Share Image
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. — Elizabeth Gilbert Girl Copy Share Image
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him. — Elizabeth Gilbert Divorce 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
“Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“count your eggs while they’re still up inside the chicken’s ass,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert Childlessness Copy Share Image
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? — Elizabeth Gilbert Bird Copy Share Image
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. — Elizabeth Gilbert Destination Copy Share Image
I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
