“ Ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still—your suggestions will neve… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The Elizabeth Gilbert
“ How I choose to handle myself as a writer is entirely my own choice. I can make my creativity into a killing field, or I can make it into a really interesting cabinet of curiosities. I can even make i… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ You study Yoga in India, Liss? he asks. Yes, Ketut. You can do Yoga, he says, but Yoga too hard. Here, he contorts himself in a cramped lotus position and squinches up his face in a comical and consti… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, reg… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Yet I can tell you that there was a lonely and untenanted corner of my heart that I’d never known was there—and Frank moved right into it. Holding him in my heart made me feel like I belonged to love… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace! Elizabeth Gilbert
“ With death, all suffering would end. Doubt would end. Shame and guilt would end. All her questions would end. Memory—most mercifully of all—would end. She could quietly excuse herself from life. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, that yo… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too la… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and in… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her favor upon you. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come fr… Elizabeth Gilbert
