“ I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I took on my depression like it was the fight of my life, wich of course, it was. I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this dispai… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result. I promised that I would try to be brave about it, and grateful, and as uncomplaining as I could possibly be. I also… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life–so why did I feel like none of it resembled me? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I could have spent the rest of my life trying to prove that I was a good girl - but that would have been unfaithful to who I really was. I believed that I was a good person, if not a good girl. But my… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I could ever tell him about myself that he would judge or criticize. My own glints of darkness did not frighten him; he had such darkness of his own that nobody else’s shadows scared him.Most of all,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, b… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I am speaking more broadly. I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to esc… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Greek and the Hebrew—and whichever side you embrace more strongly determines to a large extent how you see life. From the Greeks—specifically from the glory days of ancient Athens—we have inherited ou… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. Americans spend billions to k… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Galopamos por la vida como artistas de circo que se bambolean precariamente a lomos de dos veloces caballos; un pie va sobre el caballo llamado Destino y el otro, sobre el caballo llamado Libre Albedr… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart... Elizabeth Gilbert
“ For the first time in my life, it occurred to me that perhaps I was asking too much of love. Or, at least, perhaps I was asking too much of marriage. Perhaps I was loading a far heavier cargo of expec… Elizabeth Gilbert
