“ Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Un día de éstos vas a recordar esta época de tu vida como un dulce momento de tristeza. Entenderás que, estando de duelo y teniendo roto el corazón, estás en el mejor sitio posible para cambiar tu vid… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Trains running in every direction spit hot ash and cinders. Ministers and moralists feared that the vibrations and jostling of such fast travel would throw weak-minded women into sexual frenzies. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Todo comienza cuando el objeto de tu adoración te da una dosis embriagadora y alucinógena de algo que jamás te habías atrevido a admitir que necesitabas —un cóctel tóxico-sentimental, quizá, de un amo… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret. I think people have children for all manner of reasons - sometimes out of a pure desire to nurture… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Those girls are on the road to trouble, I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk—and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn’t understand, thou… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This was not a considered decision. Nor was it a gesture of charity, draped in a warm mantle of maternal kindness. No, this was an act of intuition, sprung from a deep and unspoken feminine knowledge… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift - or curse, perhaps - of awareness about our own… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it’s something you must do daily, forever. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There’s plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The word paradise, by the way, which comes to us from the Persian, means literally a walled garden. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning fu… Elizabeth Gilbert
