Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert Belief Copy Share Image
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance. — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God. — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Family Copy Share Image
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place. — Elizabeth Gilbert Desire Copy Share Image
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat love pray 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
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Contentment Copy Share Image
“This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page: I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Contentment Copy Share Image
“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and morality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear 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 Ceremony Copy Share Image
“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large… — Elizabeth Gilbert Knowledge Copy Share Image
“We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Couples Copy Share Image
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Then there was a pop-surprise bonus side order brought over by the waitress for free—a serving of fried zucchini blossoms with a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.) — Elizabeth Gilbert Bali Copy Share Image
the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it ! — Elizabeth Gilbert Gardening Copy Share Image
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Denial Copy Share Image
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Adventurer Copy Share Image
“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human… — Elizabeth Gilbert Human experience 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 Creative life Copy Share Image
“So the question is not so much "What are you passionate about?" The question is "What are you passionate enough about that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I love him and therefore I want to protect him -- even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ambitious Copy Share Image
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert Differences 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
“To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away… — Elizabeth Gilbert Good energy 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 Copy Share Image
