Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Food Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined… — Elizabeth Gilbert Life Copy Share Image
Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me their badges. I know these guys very… — Elizabeth Gilbert Depression Copy Share Image
“We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called “Divorcées Without Borders.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Friendship Copy Share Image
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home… — Elizabeth Gilbert Christmas Copy Share Image
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material… — Elizabeth Gilbert Ability Copy Share Image
“The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Luck Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't… — Elizabeth Gilbert God Copy Share Image
“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather… — Elizabeth Gilbert Around the world Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Choice Copy Share Image
They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Anatomy Copy Share Image
I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people… — Elizabeth Gilbert Better person Copy Share Image
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before… — Elizabeth Gilbert Baby Copy Share Image
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cathartic Copy Share Image
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Excellence Copy Share Image
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely… — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
“The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world,” says an… — Elizabeth Gilbert Death Copy Share Image
I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from… — Elizabeth Gilbert Longing Copy Share Image
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Book Copy Share Image
“But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send some love and light every time you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise… — Elizabeth Gilbert About yourself Copy Share Image
“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).” — Elizabeth Gilbert Bali Copy Share Image
“I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bravery Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Beverages Copy Share Image