“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change your life Copy Share Image
“You have been to hell, Ketut?" He smiled. Of course he's been there. What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven,"… — Elizabeth Gilbert Heaven and hell Copy Share Image
“Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Break your heart Copy Share Image
“Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Italy Copy Share Image
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Birthright Copy Share Image
“There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never… — Elizabeth Gilbert Advice Copy Share Image
God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“the Upanishads suggest that so-called chaos may have an actual divine function, even if you personally can't recognize it right now: "The… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chaos Copy Share Image
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There's a reason we refer to "leaps of faith" - because the decision to consent to any notion of divinity is a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I find these days that all I want for Rayya anymore—if you can be said to want anything for somebody who has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If you clear out all that space in your mind that you’re using right now to obsess about this guy, you’ll have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Psychology Copy Share Image
“I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Faith Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half… — Elizabeth Gilbert Destiny Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Advancement 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
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“He was playing a character I had invented, which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In… — Elizabeth Gilbert Desperate Copy Share Image
“There is not a street in Naples in which some tough little kid in shorts and mismatched socks is not screaming up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The… — Elizabeth Gilbert Big questions Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Berlusconi Copy Share Image
“I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
“First spouses, I have learned, don't ever really go away--even if you aren't speaking to them anymore. They are phantoms who dwell… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Correspondence Copy Share Image
“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Erasure Copy Share Image
“You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Countries Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Change Copy Share Image
“Be very careful, warns this tale, not to get too obsessed with the repetition of religious ritual just for its own sake.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Religion Copy Share Image