Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Accuracy Copy Share Image
“At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Love Copy Share Image
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert Emotions Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Fiction Copy Share Image
I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. — Elizabeth Gilbert Dinner Copy Share Image
“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Guilt Copy Share Image
Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep. — Elizabeth Gilbert Dream Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?” — Elizabeth Gilbert Fear Copy Share Image
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Drama Copy Share Image
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak. — Elizabeth Gilbert Attention Copy Share Image
“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Interview Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This… — Elizabeth Gilbert Healing Copy Share Image
“Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Cold night Copy Share Image
What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Bad relationship Copy Share Image
We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Court Copy Share Image
“The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You… — Elizabeth Gilbert Contentment Copy Share Image
“There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert Art Copy Share Image
“Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
![“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_court_my-friend-and-i-decided-we-ll-go-to-cors_425440.jpg)
