“ Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own pow… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ My fear wasn’t some kind of rare artisanal object; it was just a mass-produced item, available on the shelves of any generic box store. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be—by definition—faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what consti… Elizabeth Gilbert
