It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: “What’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth-gilbert Copy Share Image
“At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much… — Elizabeth Gilbert Education Copy Share Image
“God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Individual Copy Share Image
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
“believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived—that is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Intimacy Copy Share Image
Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Access Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Confidence Copy Share Image
“The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anxiety Copy Share Image
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“When I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Creativity 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
“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all… — Elizabeth Gilbert Body Copy Share Image
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Endurance Copy Share Image
The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Humor Copy Share Image
“Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Truth Copy Share Image
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Despair Copy Share Image
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize… — Elizabeth Gilbert Brave Copy Share Image
“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? Reunited… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
