“ Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would disc… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you ever… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is the only proven arbalest against superstitious thinking, or lackadaisical axioms. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. Bu… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong tom or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a g… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What i… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afr… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work … Elizabeth Gilbert
