Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Balance Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Hope 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 Desires Copy Share Image
“So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered -- one for each of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Around the world Copy Share Image
Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
“You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — Elizabeth Gilbert Earth Copy Share Image
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Character Copy Share Image
I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Inspirational Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Being married Copy Share Image
I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Bullshit Copy Share Image
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chance Copy Share Image
“it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy” — Elizabeth Gilbert Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asian Copy Share Image
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Animal Copy Share Image
