“ This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human be… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The other day a monk told me, 'The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the b… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The old cobbler had believed in something he called the signature of all things-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Simply put, I got pulled through the wormhole of the Absolute, and in that rush I suddenly understood the workings of the universe completely. I left my body, I left the room, I left the planet, I ste… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It’s a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebec… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I would sit with him until he was all right again. I knew that I would sit with him for as long as it took. That's all I could do. That was my only job in the world that day - to sit with a good man.… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others. Elizabeth Gilbert
