“ 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. But Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby -… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Through the mere act of creating something—anything—you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was creeping upon her. She could almost hear her mind pacin… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, h… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Third, nobody ever really listens to anybody else's complaints, anyhow, because we're all too focused on our own holy struggle, so basically you're just talking to a brick wall. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Think of the many articles one can find every year in the Wall Street Journal describing some entrepreneur or businessman as being a pioneer or a maverick or a cowboy. Think of the many times these am… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ They loved each other, she realized. They loved each other, because they knew each other. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The problem is that we're all full of desire, it is the very hallmark of our emotional existence, and it can lead to our downfall - and to the downfall of others. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this mo… Elizabeth Gilbert
